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Caregiving responsibilities can undermine the future retirement security of caregivers if they are unable to save for retirement or add to their Social Security credits because they’ve stepped away from the workforce.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

He warned that unmanaged cross-border movement could undermine security and social order, and said no country could address the challenge alone.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

The renewed escalation threatened to slow Gulf producers’ efforts to restore output and undermine confidence in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic had recently begun to recover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

He offered a note of optimism and suggested the president’s goal is to enhance, rather than undermine, the alliance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

African American leader Booker T. Washington shared this view, opposing suffrage on the grounds that giving women the vote would undermine their moral and domestic influence.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

This obviously undermines the investment argument for the “picks and shovel” stocks of the AI infrastructure build-out, like the chip makers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

Truly creative and inspiring art undermines that goal, because it provokes responses like empathy and critical thinking in audiences — which gets in the way of authoritarian domination.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

But using the technology this way both undermines consumer trust in an increasingly important sales channel, according to critics, and competes with users who demonstrate products the old-fashioned way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Turk said the lack of transparency and clarity surrounding the circumstances of the deaths undermines accountability.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The fact that I can’t stop my knees from bouncing undermines any sense of control, though.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Burkina, Mali and Niger did so earlier in July, leading the ICC's executive body to voice concern that their departure undermined the global pursuit of justice.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

The protests follow a series of controversies that have undermined trust in India's testing system, including the leak of a medical entrance examination paper that forced more than two million candidates to retake the test.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Both Exposito and Martinez agreed that the data from the World Cup should be informative for Hollywood, where Latino talent continues to be undermined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

China's commerce ministry said on Friday that the moves "seriously infringed upon Jingye's legitimate rights and interests and severely undermined the confidence of Chinese companies investing in the UK".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Eventually, though, Padre Sinkovich undermined the very foundations of his church, which collapsed on top of him, writing finis to another droll chapter in Milagro’s history.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The unexplained, silent changing of casualty statistics - for both the wounded and the dead - was criticised as undermining transparency.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The committee also said there were "policy contradictions", with benefits cuts for people in training undermining the government's drive to encourage apprenticeships, describing the "lack of coherence" as "inexcusable".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The whole reason thousands of men fought a war over the most beautiful woman alive is that there’s only one of them — unless undermining that excuse is the point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

But when summits become a venue for essentially undermining allied assurance and adversary deterrence, their utility diminishes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

“There are too many for the bunker already, and I don’t think I can make it any bigger, not without undermining the house or falling into the cellar.”

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron