deprecate

“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

“If there are products that aren’t resonating with customers we deprecate those items and look for other opportunities,” Taddy said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

This word is imprecise and is used universally to deprecate the person or group described.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023

We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling and tendencies.

From A History of the Republican Party by Platt, George Washington

He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

Though there is obviously truth in this approach, then and now, du Rivage deprecates it as much as it has ever been deprecated.

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017

Love, more worldly-wise, deprecates its demonstrativeness, and would avert it altogether.

From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

“Blocking public posts makes no sense. It needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute,” Mr. Musk tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

It is kind of intuitive at this point to say we have had hundreds of billions of dollars in 3D assets invested, and all of those essentially get deprecated after their first use.

From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022

As ronsmith7’s Reddit post mentioned, the number of citations to the Daily Mail on Wikipedia has decreased dramatically in the three years since the publication was deprecated.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2021

In an article for the national tabloid Expressen, Engdahl deprecated the vulgarity of his opponents in the academy, and called them “a clique of bad losers … who plotted to wound and humiliate Katarina Frostenson”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

I deprecated war on the seceding States, and strongly expressed the opinion that the South could not be conquered.

From Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War by Brown, George William

His own company SpaceX, he now says, despite previously deprecating the moon, will focus on developing a “self-growing city” there “in less than 10 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

It’s niche, yes, but the folks interested in that niche are passionate about it, despite the deprecating memes.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2024

As early as 1989, Gaines had conceived of a show that would juxtapose powerful contemporary work by Black Americans with deprecating excerpts by art critics, highlighting the profound mismeasure of these artists’ achievements.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

And she was fond of saying, in deprecating some item, “I couldn’t write a line with that in the house.”

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison