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devalue

[dee-val-yoo] / diˈvæl ju /


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Concerns that AI might devalue cyber companies triggered a broad selloff in cyber stock prices earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2026

‘You know, our food is worth, in my mind, every penny we ask someone to pay for it. I don’t want to devalue our core offering.’

From MarketWatch Feb. 11, 2026

“As it currently stands, many of these platforms are commercializing IP in ways that undermine fan engagement efforts, devalue brands, and misuse names and likenesses,” Krauss said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2025

Markets have long been concerned that China would devalue its currency in response to tariffs, says Brooks.

From Barron's Oct. 11, 2025

If pennies become worthless, does that devalue our thoughts to less than nothing?

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

Many Hollywood professionals will tell you not to take unpaid gigs, as it devalues your work and the industry itself.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2025

But if you view it as the last stage of Ripley’s career trajectory on the payroll of a company that devalues human life, the movie translates as elegiac.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2025

He idealizes his beaus and then devalues them.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

When asked to elaborate on his problems with radio hits, he said that songwriters have been devalued.

From Salon Mar. 29, 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

JPMorgan Chase tightened lending to private credit funds and devalued software company loans due to AI disruption risk, reports say.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Though there’s never one reason a business closes, some industry observers and art fans have cited the rise in AI-generated content potentially devaluing original art overall.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2026

The loans it is devaluing are to software companies, which have come under scrutiny in recent months because of the potential risk of disruption by artificial intelligence.

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

"I think as British people we're very good at piercing the balloon of our own success and undercutting it and devaluing ourselves," he tells BBC News.

From BBC Feb. 4, 2026

But to see its empowering mania catch on with young girls in an era lousy with messages devaluing a woman’s worth is particularly gratifying.

From Salon Dec. 19, 2025




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