degrade
Example Sentences
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“It’s the fastest way to degrade your loyalty and satisfaction among the people who are traveling with you, because they feel like they’re being nickeled and dimed,” Taylor told me.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
A handshake between the protagonists disguises hell-bent hunger to degrade each other as far as non-contact sport allows.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
The moves by the financial technology company, which owns TurboTax, Credit Karma and QuickBooks, are meant to shore up a sagging stock price—down about 33% this year—as investors worry AI will degrade software providers’ businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
However, McBeth notes that continued operations would continue to degrade Iran’s command and control structure.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026
I could not shake the almost desperate sadness all this evoked, and I marveled that sounds could so degrade the spirit.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing degrade
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