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devalue

[dee-val-yoo] / diˈvæl ju /


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Schools can institute an ‘adjusted GPA’ to devalue A’s when they are too numerous.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 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

The company might choose to devalue points, raise fees or make it difficult to leave the program.

From MarketWatch Dec. 16, 2025

“The government would like to increase competitiveness rather than devalue the currency.”

From Barron's Oct. 28, 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

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 others think it devalues a Grand Slam title and robs doubles specialists of a chance to earn the big prize money.

From BBC Aug. 19, 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

But during the global financial crisis, one fund couldn’t honor that value—it “broke the buck”—because it held devalued assets.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 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

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

There’s a tidal change happening in youth culture that is tied to inaccessibility, a response to the devaluing of making art, that’s exciting to see.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

You can’t make fun of the people devaluing art by scrolling on their phone, watching movies at home, and then play artists off the stage before they can even say a word.

From Salon Mar. 16, 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

Many Ghanaians responded positively to Ablakwa's post, but some accused the government of "devaluing" the country's passport by handing them to foreign celebrities.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2026




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