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devalue

[dee-val-yoo] / diˈvæl ju /


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“What we want to do is defend against anything that would devalue the elections process,” Logan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

If Washington and Tokyo were to team up to devalue the dollar and prop up the yen, there could be benefits for both sides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

He cites the example of Japan and China where huge debt issuance caused monetary deflation to which their central banks responded by allowing their currencies to devalue.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 21, 2025

Inflation is down from 200 percent to 31 percent -- although it is likely to rise again, if the peso is allowed to devalue as markets expect.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

When France needed to devalue its currency, for example, they told the IMF in advance.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

A pack of cards made up exclusively of jokers would be useless, just as a society that devalues the individual would be inert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Wars are financed by borrowing and printing money which devalues debt and fiat currency.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 16, 2026

If AI devalues knowledge, it undermines the US equity market’s advantage and its S&P 500’s 21x forward earnings.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

"We get quite a lot of end of lines, distressed stock and it devalues over time so we utilise that stock in a better way," he explains.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

He idealizes his beaus and then devalues them.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Samuel Vaknin

But when your points are devalued, your transfer ratio can suddenly become something like 4 to 3.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

By allowing its primary cinematic output to be devalued, Pixar sold off its imagination and lowered its artistic standards — a mistake the studio is still struggling to come back from.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

The corporate ladder feels more like a slide to people whose roles are being devalued in today’s cooler job market, writes Callum Borchers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

He said Article 4 unfairly gave away control over "what you do with your property" and had devalued his house.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

Now I’ve pulled that ace out of the hole, taken a good look, and found that it’s useless to me, devalued over time.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

What’s happening in the American League right now is so pitiful that it’s practically devaluing the entire concept of October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

There’s a strange irony to this age of relentless self-filming: It’s birthed a devaluing of openness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

A recent survey from Resume.com showed that 41% of workers believed AI was replacing, devaluing or overlapping with parts of their jobs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Fynn believes that the devaluing of matchday revenue harms clubs in the lower tiers of English football.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

If that dramatically brings down the cost of making production-ready software, there is likely to be more software, devaluing the roles these applications play today.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026




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