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
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
“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
As for his personal reflections, I would gladly know who are those 'wanton wives' he speaks of? who are those ladies of high stations that he so boldly traduces in his sermon?
From History of John Bull by Arbuthnot, John
A wife and mother cannot thus absolve her own soul; she simply disgraces and traduces her holiest work.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Peacock, Thomas Love
He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William
He accused senators investigating the UN Oil-for-Food programme of being "cavalier" with justice, saying they had "traduced" his name.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
If anything, we are now the ones being traduced by you.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2019
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
Hamlet, I., 4, 18: This heavy-headed revel east and west Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations.
From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.
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
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 McFee, William
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