vitiate

Example Sentences

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Giving that up, Professor Bale said, would vitiate the ideological rationale of her government and potentially turn her into a lame-duck leader until the next election, which she will have to call by early 2025.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 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

Millennials have allied with Gen Z, and managed to vitiate the meme in the process by, basically, overdoing it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2019

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

That he found a kernel of truth can not be denied, but he allowed sources of error to creep in and vitiate his wonderfully suggestive and patient research.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson