depreciated

Example Sentences

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Having sat unused in a police yard for over three years, it will have depreciated sharply - perhaps to less than half its original price.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Since the crisis erupted, the interest rates at which Romania borrows have risen, and the lei currency has depreciated against the euro, which reached an all-time high of 5.21 Romanian lei on Tuesday.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

That annual return will continue over the decades while slowly decreasing each year as the assets are depreciated, Ellis said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Yet gold prices rallied and the dollar depreciated against foreign currencies, moves that could signal jitters about the U.S. policy landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

By reason of such rebuffs, his collection for the day only reached about thirty pounds, inclusive of the value of some depreciated Portuguese bonds which he good-naturedly accepted as though at par.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel