traduce
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Artificial-intelligence researchers rush to create it, even though computer-as-brain metaphors traduce the complexity of human biology, at least for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
“The government will in no way traduce or criticize the work of the committee who are doing exactly what Parliament has asked them to do.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Art for art’s sake recognized that if you subordinate art to an idea like “the greater good,” you traduce it.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
From this, the department began micromanaging institutions’ disciplinary practices in ways that traduce constitutional guarantees.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018
“Mrs. Watson,” he said, “I’d like to in- traduce you to your long-lost son from Siam, His Royal Highness, Yul Watson!”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
He spoils the Elibank Plot, he reveals the hostile policy of Frederick the Great, he leads on to the arrest of Archibald Cameron, he sows disunion, he traduces and betrays.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
Or did he give this poor woman any opportunity of obtaining justice against this Captain Gordon, who, after acknowledging that he owed his life to her favor, calumniates and traduces her to her utter destruction?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Holkar, for instance, unless common fame traduces him, has rather an itching for what Mr. Laing calls 'hard rupees.'
From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James
And if I seem insouciant, it’s not because I’m not taking it seriously, or I feel some residual coating of shame at re-entering an institution I’ve already traduced once.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2018
And there’s another value that’s being traduced here, one that Old Schoolers often uphold: hard work.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 28, 2017
This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015
A lifelong baseball fan, he adored the Dodgers until they traduced him by quitting Brooklyn in 1957, after which he threw his support to the Yankees.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2015
When I remonstrated for more seamen, I was called an enemy to Government: now I am told that I want to strew the King's pillow with thorns: am traduced, aspersed, calumniated from morning to night.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
It’s an approach now so mainstream that it’s become an orthodoxy of its own; it’s difficult to think of a writer today, of any genre, who doesn’t congratulate herself for traducing artificial binaries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
Yale has been seduced by a $150 million “bells and whistles” student center into traducing the best of what it and Holloway have stood for.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2019
Are you comfortable with this traducing of due process?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2015
So, wonderfully, traducing Microsoft across the Internet helps Sony, and vice versa.
From Forbes ● Nov. 5, 2013
She remembered his threats that day at Ratels Hoek; but such, at any rate, had pointed to a more manly course than this traducing of the absent.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
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