demoralize
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The plan was to demoralize war-weary, homesick troops scattered around the Pacific theater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025
As a culture, we probably do create unreasonable, sentimental expectations around family that depress and demoralize vast numbers of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
He then answered his own question: “It’s as if they only wanted to scare, hurt, and demoralize us.”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025
Others, however, have said that such messaging may have no impact on behavior, or worse, that it may depress and demoralize the public into inaction.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
“I’m panicked. I just look like this to demoralize the competition.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
In a world that often demoralizes rural Americans, and Appalachians in particular, it is imperative that we understand the value of our experience.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2025
None of this really demoralizes Im, who knows as well as anybody that his park is a gigantic money sink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
“It demoralizes police officers and that doesn’t do any good for the officers or the community.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
How can someone who loves you be okay with leaving things around for you to clean up, knowing it demoralizes you?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2021
Secret mental efforts to obtain help from one who is unaware of this attempt, demoralizes the person who does this, the same as other forms of stealing, and will end in destroying health and morals.
From Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy
Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
If we only define people with dementia based on their deficits, we become demoralized and give in to pessimistic attitudes that inevitably deprive them of dignity and hope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
For this reason, according to the researchers, investors who are fans of a losing team will be more demoralized than the winning team’s fans will be exuberant.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
It’s a tall task given the agency’s demoralized condition.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 8, 2026
Jason, Hazel, and Frank had returned to the scene of the catastrophe, hoping to dig through the rubble and find a way to save Percy and Annabeth, but they’d come back demoralized.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Challenges like adjusting to a new language or learning unfamiliar customs and eating different foods can prove exhausting and demoralizing.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
The demoralizing loss sent the Lakers into a three-game tail spin one month before the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
The findings about the bat bridges were demoralizing for Altringham, who during his career appeared at several public inquiries into the impact of road-building projects on bats.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
Golf became repetitive, and demoralizing, because I couldn’t score as low as I used to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
To avoid demoralizing troops, flights carrying the containers to America took place at night.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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