- present participle of detract.
detracting
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“Could this be any band? If so, it’s not in there . . . it’s gotta be something that really adds to the canon or we’re just detracting from the canon.”
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Mr. Gallo’s design for this is evocative, but a backdrop depicting a cityscape looms behind it, detracting from the play’s intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
But regardless of how that comeback ends, Vonn isn’t worried about it detracting from what she’s already accomplished.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
Stephen Sackur speaks to actor and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr on whether the focus on a ‘good death’ is detracting from the right to a good life?
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
Possibly not a word of them is superfluous, but possibly also they might be entirely eliminated from the work of which they form part, without sensibly detracting from its merit.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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