traduce

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

And did she somehow betray or traduce them, hold them in contempt or unjustifiably exploit them?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 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

But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2017

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

He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

Yes: they all speak well of him, and they say that the Governor, Vaudreuil, treats him shamefully, or at least traduces him shamefully behind his back to the Government in France.

From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

A wife and mother cannot thus absolve her own soul; she simply disgraces and traduces her holiest work.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

If anything, we are now the ones being traduced by you.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2019

More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

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

This is an understatement, for it was on account of his fidelity to his master that he was shamefully traduced, and so sent to jail.

From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler

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

Calling someone a “flirt” isn’t seen as an insult, but in some cases it might serve as a snide sort of traducing.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 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

"I hope the oracle has not been traducing me?"

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various