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It also would all but destroy Detroit’s immediate chances, demoralize the clubhouse and likely alienate a fan base desperate to see the Tigers win their first title since 1984.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

On a team without set bullpen roles, Henriquez wants to be a closer, using his blazing fastball not just to demoralize hitters but to shut down games as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

A heavy loss of seats could demoralize the party faithful and panic Tory lawmakers, who fear that they will be tossed out of Parliament in the general election.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

“I didn’t want to demoralize you too early in the game.”

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

“It demoralizes the workforce ... you got substandard classes,” you said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

“It demoralizes police officers and that doesn’t do any good for the officers or the community.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2022

When the Vancouver Canucks go 17 minutes without a shot and then score on their first chance, that demoralizes a team.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

A predominance of the funny even demoralizes intellectually as well as morally, but it has its own subordinate place in healthy child life.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Elizabeth P. (Palmer) Peabody

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

These subdued the psychosis but produced a mental fog that affected his ability to work and demoralized him profoundly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But when he and his coaching staff took over the U.S. team in the fall of 2024, following its disastrous performance in the Copa América, he said he inherited a demoralized, dispirited group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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

There had been no time to organize the gallowglasses, and such of these as did remain with the nobility were demoralized, or leaderless.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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 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

Other times, the long wait for permanent housing proves demoralizing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

The cost, while small, felt like what one worker described as the “cherry on top” of a demoralizing work culture beset by layoffs and overwhelming workloads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

After what Horan had been through, it was demoralizing.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge