depreciate
Example Sentences
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Car companies will often offer incentives to help their trade-in customers offset negative equity, with some brands tending to offer more because their cars depreciate faster.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
This just doesn’t work for my family,’” and end up trading in a car with thousands of dollars in negative equity — a more severe problem with EVs, which depreciate in value quickly.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026
Electric vehicles depreciate in value faster than traditional cars, meaning buyers can get a good deal on a used EV that hasn’t been on the road for long.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The catch: They generally don’t break out the costs for each, nor are they required to do so, despite the vastly different time periods in which facilities and chips depreciate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
It has been the fashion, of late, to depreciate the clergymen among our Puritan fathers.
From Delusion, or The Witch of New England by Lee, Eliza Buckminster
Vocabulary lists containing depreciate
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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