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devalue

[dee-val-yoo] / diˈvæl ju /


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Schools can institute an ‘adjusted GPA’ to devalue A’s when they are too numerous.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

‘You know, our food is worth, in my mind, every penny we ask someone to pay for it. I don’t want to devalue our core offering.’

From MarketWatch Feb. 11, 2026

"This truth cannot be changed by attempts to rewrite history and tarnish and devalue the struggle of the people of Kosovo for freedom."

From Barron's Feb. 9, 2026

“As it currently stands, many of these platforms are commercializing IP in ways that undermine fan engagement efforts, devalue brands, and misuse names and likenesses,” Krauss said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

When France needed to devalue its currency, for example, they told the IMF in advance.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Wars are financed by borrowing and printing money which devalues debt and fiat currency.

From MarketWatch Feb. 16, 2026

If AI devalues knowledge, it undermines the US equity market’s advantage and its S&P 500’s 21x forward earnings.

From Barron's Feb. 13, 2026

Critics of the expansion say it devalues the qualification process.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2025

The rest of the weight loss-market has tried to capitalize on this criticism through a marketing approach that devalues GLP-1 medications.

From Salon Jan. 10, 2025

He idealizes his beaus and then devalues them.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel

But when your points are devalued, your transfer ratio can suddenly become something like 4 to 3.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

By allowing its primary cinematic output to be devalued, Pixar sold off its imagination and lowered its artistic standards — a mistake the studio is still struggling to come back from.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

The corporate ladder feels more like a slide to people whose roles are being devalued in today’s cooler job market.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

JPMorgan Chase tightened lending to private credit funds and devalued software company loans due to AI disruption risk, reports say.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

Any society goes through social movements or fads, in which economically useless things become valued or useful things devalued temporarily.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

A recent survey from Resume.com showed that 41% of workers believed AI was replacing, devaluing or overlapping with parts of their jobs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

There’s a tidal change happening in youth culture that is tied to inaccessibility, a response to the devaluing of making art, that’s exciting to see.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

With financial markets devaluing software companies and their debts, the fund marked down some of its software loans, and reduced its portfolio’s net asset value by 1.8% for the quarter, to $19.59 a share.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

You can’t make fun of the people devaluing art by scrolling on their phone, watching movies at home, and then play artists off the stage before they can even say a word.

From Salon Mar. 16, 2026

"I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves," he tells BBC News.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2026




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