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
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
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But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
And next to him again is the beautiful, the accomplished, the witty, the fascinating, the tormenting, Lady Clarinda, who traduces herself to the said Captain by assertions which it would drive him crazy to believe.
From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock
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
It traduces his best friends, and even his very wife.
From The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama by Augustin Filon
He traduces these great reformers and the doctrines of his own church, and yet was soon after made a bishop!!!—Ed.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
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
More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
On Monday Mr Watson was urged to apologise by Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who said he had "vilely traduced" the former home secretary.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2015
This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015
Now that is a fact stranger than fiction, which shows what sort of metal is in our women of the much abused and traduced nineteenth century.
From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood
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
So, wonderfully, traducing Microsoft across the Internet helps Sony, and vice versa.
From Forbes ● Nov. 5, 2013
On the contrary, for the purposes of animating the stage she hasn't done enough traducing: this often sounds like cut-out book pages walking around the stage.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2010
If it were not for a fear of traducing my own character by an ambiguous phrase, I would confess to many "unworthy thoughts" of many worthy people.
From Aliens by William McFee
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