degrading
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She said her parents had to act as guarantors so she could rent a home, calling it a "very degrading process".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
I assume you’re going to live in this new home for the next 20-odd years, and that you have the means to upgrade without degrading your retirement fund.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
A few months later, he found degrading posters of his head on a child’s body shoved inside his uniform pockets and gun holster and plastered over the station walls, according to the complaint.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
But the U.S. will do better to keep its eyes on the prize of degrading the regime and its weaponry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
There is a theory that the process of aging may be due to the cumulative effect of imprecision, a gradual degrading of information.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing degrading
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
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