make worse
Example Sentences
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People crave clarity, but my work shows that people can feel less confident and make worse decisions when given more information to guide their choices.
From Salon • Aug. 15, 2024
That is, we tend to make worse decisions when we have to make several of them in a row.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
“In these sorts of places, anything that climate change would make worse would become a really big additional problem really quickly.”
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
And there’s also a tree-killing malady called canker fungus, which we make worse by using chainsaws, “which spread the fungus spores like crazy, and blowers, which spread the fungus like crazy.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021
Maybe R.C. was so miserable himself that he was always looking for somebody or something he could make worse off than he was.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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