debasement

Example Sentences

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We are transitioning from strictly a debasement inflationary environment to one that is more balanced between scarcity and debasement.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Foreign central-bank buying — along with a drumbeat of calls for lower U.S. interest rates and the potential long-term debasement of the dollar — is “very hard to stop.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 22, 2026

The results cover a period when silver prices surged as investors piled into precious metals in the so-called debasement trade.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Over and over, Colin takes stock of his own debasement.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026

Fairly or unfairly, to her derogators Pittman epitomized all that was reprehensible about Dick Bass’s popularization of the Seven Summits and the ensuing debasement of the world’s highest mountain.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer