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traduce

[truh-doos, -dyoos] / trəˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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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

But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.

From New York Times May 16, 2017

He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

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

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

A wife and mother cannot thus absolve her own soul; she simply disgraces and traduces her holiest work.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2016

This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2015

He thus selects for compliment on one page the very women whom he has traduced on another.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Just as Mabey wonders if we can extract wellbeing from an environment we are traducing, so Jones considers the 21st-century challenge posed by ecological grief.

From The Guardian Mar. 14, 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

Gossip is capable of a more genial purpose than traducing people.

From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Mary Greer Conklin




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