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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

The surge in China’s trade surplus isn’t a byproduct of a cheapened yuan, but despite a relatively stronger currency, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

And despite playing in an era where individual pitching wins are greatly cheapened, Kershaw has 51 more wins than Koufax.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

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




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