disparage
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"The commission is concerned that Sanofi pursued a misleading communication campaign to disparage Fluad by portraying it as inferior to Efluelda, going against national vaccination recommendations in several member states," a commission statement said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
“I took all of his commentary to be very, very careful not to disparage any person on the court or elsewhere,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
USA men's ice hockey player Brady Tkachuk has distanced himself from an AI-enhanced White House video in which he appears to disparage Canadians, saying "those words would never come out of my mouth".
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
The signage removal comes after a March 2025 executive order called for the review of over 400 national sites to remove or modify interpretive materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Warsh regularly disparages such models and the “economics guild” that developed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
But it also disparages those susceptible to pseudofolliculitis barbae, a medical condition primarily affecting Black men like the show’s razor-shy recruit, wherein regular shaving causes inflammation and a higher likelihood of scarring and developing keloids.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025
I would like to point out that the 18th-century world Messinger so disparages also gave us the freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
After the story published, Tesfaye posted a clip on Twitter and Instagram in which the character disparages the publication.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
He feels tenderness toward her when she disparages herself this way.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Other research has been disparaged for not using proper quality-control measures.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Last fall, Warsh disparaged a brief to the Supreme Court signed by all former living Fed chairs and a bipartisan group of Treasury secretaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Moreover, the tools that America helped build to tackle shared global threats, like international law and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, have been disparaged and undermined.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2026
ANL's lawyers have staunchly denied the allegations, previously calling the case "without foundation" and an "affront" to hard-working journalists whose reputations had been disparaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
As he grew to love Maggie, Elisha disparaged her work more often.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Masamine Ryuho, the president of Vivant's TV network TBS, said on Wednesday that the show was completely fictional and had no intentions of "disparaging any particular country".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
An Ohio judge recently ordered both parties to remove social media posts about each other that were considered disparaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
She once received a refund after a flight attendant made a disparaging remark about how she was dressed.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026
Several people who worked with Foa suggested she could be intimidating and sometimes disparaging to people she worked with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
I greeted him warmly, but his response was exceedingly cool and superior, and he made a disparaging remark about the fact that I would be staying in the freshman dormitory.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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