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Her legal team described the businessman as a Russian-born exile and outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, arguing that Pitt’s claims amounted to an inaccurate and xenophobic attempt to discredit him.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Seemingly to discredit the precedent, she argues the Court is too quick to dismiss the idea that the Bruen history test should include post-Civil War Southern laws disarming blacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Raman, too, has sought to discredit Pratt, dubbing him an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“For years I have had to relive some of the hardest moments of my life while facing attempts to shame, humiliate and discredit me in open court,” Mann continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

“They’ll try to discredit the other kids,” I said between gritted teeth.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

“This makes us vulnerable and discredits our goal to be a strong, independent geopolitical power,” Pentus-Rosimannus said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

They do not, however, realize that their wrongness discredits them and shows why people should stop listening to them.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2025

The minute they started labeling it with conspiracy theories, it discredits the purity of the work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

She said: "Carrick's multiple convictions for multiple serious offences plainly discredits the police service and undermines public confidence in it."

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2023

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people, like in his photography classes.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

One essay defended the gold standard, which had been discredited in the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

His reforming zeal made him sympathetic to the Americans but would later come to seem discredited by the violent populism of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

These measures, enacted by more than half the states, shielded children from a discredited and abusive practice that fails to achieve its aims while inflicting serious, lasting psychological harms.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

Here, then, is a sampling of predictions, which range from the discredited to pseudoscience to the bizarre.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

By giving prestige to the Swiss, he discredited his own troops, for he did away entirely with his foot-soldiers and obliged his cavalry to depend upon the abilities of others.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Defense attorney Tom Mesereau was an expert at discrediting witnesses, subjects told the filmmakers, but certain key witnesses, like Janet Arvizo, struggled to connect with the jury on their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

I scrutinized New Testament scholarship and was more impressed by the evidence supporting it than that discrediting it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

And this is why discrediting whistleblowers works so well.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2024

The defence’s best chance at winning was discrediting Cohen, a star witness.

From BBC ● May 30, 2024

The discrediting of witnesses can be a highly effective tactic, and Quintilian observes that it can be done against whole categories of witnesses, as well as against individuals.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith