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undermining

[uhn-der-mahy-ning] / ˈʌn dərˌmaɪ nɪŋ /


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Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the call for an investigation in a post on X, saying that X, Meta and TikTok were undermining the “mental health, dignity, and rights” of children.

From The Wall Street Journal

To keep going after that and force them back in each other’s lives, it would have felt like it was undermining the stakes of everything we set up.

From Los Angeles Times

Another risk is that household wealth has been buoyed by years of equity gains, and a sustained selloff could cause consumers to pull back, undermining an engine of economic growth.

From The Wall Street Journal

These would both ease your worries about housing insecurity without undermining your wife’s wish to leave her broader estate to her own children.

From MarketWatch

For Alphabet, there’s also the danger that AI replaces traditional web search, undermining its core cash engine.

From The Wall Street Journal