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dent

noun as in depression, scrape, chip

verb as in chip, scrape, depress

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The chaos, however, hasn’t dented enthusiasm for French stocks.

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The company’s finances suffered in the wake of Musk’s embrace of partisan politics last fall, which dented Tesla’s reputation in the U.S. and abroad.

All of that has the potential to move Treasury prices and potentially dent October’s gains.

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For Russia, any decline in its oil exports would directly dent the Kremlin’s war chest, since energy sales account for as much as a third of the country’s budget revenue.

The separation is expected to have a roughly $700 million impact on annual sales and put a 21-cent dent in adjusted earnings per share.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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