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Altman’s November 2019 email also told the board that Dario agreed “not to denigrate projects he doesn’t believe in that others want to bet on.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

He said MSPs "should take care not to denigrate or damage the rule of law".

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

After a week of hearing various US officials denigrate Europe, its leaders and its regulations at Davos, ECB chief Christine Lagarde said Friday that the harsh words could be just what the continent needed.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Netflix didn’t just become HBO—it won HBO, and will now denigrate the quality of that house in the process while swallowing up another formidable competitor.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2025

Climbers who snidely denigrate this as the Yak Route, I decided, had obviously never been through the Khumbu Icefall.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

A spokesperson for the ASA said: "We've received a complaint about a Nationwide ad. The complainant argues that the ad is misleading around other banks closing branches, and discredits and denigrates its competitors."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2024

“It denigrates the millions of victims of the Shoah in a despicable manner,” the council’s president, Josef Schuster, said, using the Hebrew name for the Holocaust.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

“I think anything that denigrates other people, I have to respectfully decline,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

But he denigrates the state’s landmark California Environmental Quality Act by citing how it interferes with the addition of bike lanes on public roads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

There are people and communities I want to see celebrated in a world that denigrates them.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

Caesar denigrated situation comedies as soap operas with laughs added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Kennedy, who has denigrated vaccines over the years, did not elaborate on the rationale for altering the recommendation for pregnant women in the 58-second video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

The very traditional rap song takes the listener through a list of people who have wronged and denigrated the rapper's name.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

By the mid-20th-century, however, leading behavioral theorists denigrated the idea of studying animal emotions since, even if they existed, they were scientifically unmeasurable and unverifiable.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

I know my parents had their reasons to raise us without religion, but it still upsets me to hear my grandmother's peaceful beliefs denigrated.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“Poverty and deprivation are no reflection on character, and there is no justification for denigrating the character of Haitians who suffer from and bear no responsibility for their country’s ills,” Justice Alito writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The speculation, she says, is "denigrating to their memories".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

In the lead up to the Super Bowl, boosters of traditional sportsbooks have been denigrating prediction markets.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

“We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Regiomontanus spoke in praise of the mathematical sciences, and he praised them by denigrating the Aristotelian philosophy taught in the universities.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton