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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

“I don’t want to devalue our core offering.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026

“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

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

"When it is so easy to create simple apps, like a habit tracker or a quiz, it devalues them," Goldberg says.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 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

Over time, Strategy issued far more Stretch shares, even as its bitcoin holdings devalued.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

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

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

A CWU spokesperson said: "This devaluing of a postal worker's job, combined with a toxic managerial culture, has created chaos and demoralisation in almost every workplace across the country."

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 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

Last month’s uptick came as China’s central bank recently signaled its tolerance for a stronger yuan amid criticism that Beijing is intentionally devaluing the Chinese currency, also known as renminbi, to boost exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026




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