degrading
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But the U.S. will do better to keep its eyes on the prize of degrading the regime and its weaponry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
The U.S. says it is degrading Iran’s ability to launch attacks by the day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
Reducing head count growth without visibly degrading service quality has become a strategic priority.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
The judgement said the trust's policy had an "admirable and noble purpose", but it had the effect of "violating the dignity" of the nurses and of "creating for them a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment".
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026
I would have consented to live under the most rigid type of dictatorship, for I felt that dictatorships, too, defined the use of men, however degrading that use might be.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing degrading
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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They Called Us Enemy
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