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traduce

[truh-doos, -dyoos] / trəˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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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

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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