deprecate
Example Sentences
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“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025
“Why? Because those algorithmic systems precisely are designed like a great, sort of giant spam filter to identify and deprecate and downgrade bad content.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021
He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2019
And yet, without intending it, he gave the first impulse to Jewish Reform, whose subsequent progress, could he have foreseen it, he would assuredly have been the first to deprecate.
From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix
Vocabulary lists containing deprecate
Frankenstein
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
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Grade 12, List 6
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