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This dollar weakness would also cheapen foreign-exchange hedging costs, they believed, allowing foreign investors concerned about the U.S. dollar’s long-run status to bolster their foreign-exchange hedges, which in turn would amplify the buck’s weakness.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Japanese government doesn’t want its currency to cheapen dramatically; that makes it more expensive for Japanese citizens to buy what they need.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Some customers on social media fretted that Anta, a mass-market brand, might cheapen the reputation of Arc’teryx.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

But the bad vibes of “Artificial Angels” persist, not just because the name does what it can to cheapen Grimes’ 2015 masterwork “Art Angels,” which sees its tenth anniversary hit this very month.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

I don’t like to throw the L-word around; it’s too good and rare a feeling to cheapen with overuse.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

“Chill on the AI it cheapens the brand,” one wrote on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

It “demeans and cheapens our politics. It only serves to further discourage good, big-hearted people from wanting to get involved at all. America, our parents taught us better than that.”

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024

"If a university is willing to look the other way and not hold faculty accountable for engaging in academically dishonest behavior, it cheapens its mission and the value of its education," Ms Fox said.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023

He’s incapable of not playing all out, believing it cheapens the game and himself.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

It cheapens everything, doesn’t it, if this man thinks we’re only giving him everything we have on us because we may not have any use for it ten minutes from now.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The first few songs sketch out the record’s themes, in which individual dreams are cheapened in a world that rewards artificiality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As these markets have cheapened, investors may want to look at deeply discounted BDCs and closed-end junk-bond and leveraged-loan funds.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

Lithium batteries have cheapened at a comparable pace, and the cost of wind turbines has dropped steadily too, albeit at a slower rate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

The group felt the value of music had been cheapened by online streaming and piracy, and wanted to take "a 400-year-old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity".

From BBC ● May 27, 2024

He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Discussing the moral worth of AI comes with the risk of cheapening what it means to be human, Sullivan believes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

The automaker is seeking to protect its brand integrity and prevent dealers from cheapening the image of its brands with fire-sale tactics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"The way they do their buffet and their salad bar, it feels like they are cheapening on their quality and have lower standards...They're giving away so much food and you're like 'How?'"

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2025

On the energy front, motor fuel may be cheapening, but fuel and electricity for home use are still pricey.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

He spoke alone to those who understand, Not cheapening words within the public mart, Living withdrawn, a high and humble heart, Creating loveliness for his loved land.

From Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody