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“I see these events as a disturbing pattern which will lead, eventually, to injustice and further vitiate the atmosphere prevailing in some parts of the country and stoke fires and retaliation,” Mr. Lokur said.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2021

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2019

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

Should the mercury of the short column get detached, some small quantity of air may pass; but it will be arrested at the pipette, and will not vitiate the length of the barometric column.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

If that evidence shows that someone else inflicted the wounds—if it casts doubt on whether Gutierrez caused, intended, or anticipated Harrison’s death—it vitiates the findings that made him eligible for the death penalty.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

Mr. Daley said the warning that plays at the beginning of these inmate calls constitutes “a voluntary waiver that vitiates privilege” for anyone on the call.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2018

Publishing in Cogent doesn’t merely muddy the waters on their point against gender studies, it completely vitiates it.

From Salon ● May 22, 2017

This stands in stark contrast to the unrelenting practice of broken windows policing, which places enormous pressures on police officers to cast wide nets of summonses and arrests and vitiates their professional capacities.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2015

But it somewhat vitiates his supposed testimony to the canonical books.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

The seizure supposedly vitiated his argument for ownership, which was: If the cash is not my money, whose is it?

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

“In an awfully vitiated age, where ordinary courage has become rare, I thank her for standing by the truth,” the statement said.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2021

“In such a vitiated atmosphere, it’s impossible for me to see Dil Bechara in isolation and gauge it on its own merits,” she wrote in the Film Companion, an online movie magazine.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2020

“ICMR’s intentions may be good but the processes have been vitiated and the risk is it can derail the vaccine,” he says.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2020

Few Swedish writers have wielded so pure and so incisive a style as Crusenstolpe, but his historical work is vitiated by political and personal bias.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

PBS SoCal does not value its own programs by vitiating the viewer’s experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

But a large Jeff Koons piece is droning nearby, vitiating thought with its generic monotone of irony.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2013

Pakistan summoned Afghanistan's chargé d'affaires on Thursday to protest "an unprovoked firing incident" that is "vitiating the friendly relations and creating avoidable tension between the two brotherly countries," the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2013

With the farmer there are no all-absorbing cares, no corroding anxieties, no vitiating excitement.

From Address delivered by Hon. Henry H. Crapo, Governor of Michigan, before the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, at their Sheep-shearing Exhibition held at the Agricultural College Farm, on Thursday, May 24th, 1866 by Crapo, Henry Howland