discourage
Example Sentences
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Such an education won’t discourage or penalize students who dissent from a professor’s perspective or from views dominant on the campus.
Other recent data has been discouraging too, with industrial profits tumbling in October in a sign of weak corporate profitability.
But business groups argued the plan could prove unworkable, and voiced concerns that day-one unfair dismissal rights would discourage firms from hiring.
From BBC
"It also discourages people from doing anything other than work, because there's no work-life balance any more."
From Barron's
In favor of ending quarterly reporting: Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman says the costs of quarterly reporting discourages companies from going public, to the detriment of everyday investors.
From Barron's
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