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devalue

[dee-val-yoo] / diˈvæl ju /


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They aren’t phased by narratives designed to devalue their accolades and their acumen.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

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

Holt believes the fact the CIA bankrolled Giaka devalues him as an informant.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

He idealizes his beaus and then devalues them.

From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Samuel Vaknin

It said it devalued parks and gardens and "makes them vulnerable to poorly informed development".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

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

This means more software can be produced at a new very low cost, devaluing current enterprise software makers, or even replacing them altogether.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 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


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