deprecate

“I therefore deprecate attempts to expound Wittgenstein’s thought as a finished thing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025

A lot of people don’t know that world, so I’m going to have to introduce myself to them and then self-deprecate enough to earn the opportunity to then deprecate them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

“If there are products that aren’t resonating with customers we deprecate those items and look for other opportunities,” Taddy said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Yet, many of those proclaiming their commitment to feeding the world take every opportunity to deprecate and obstruct the use of these proven safe technologies.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022

No one would better console you for a sin deplored, no one could more forcibly deprecate a sin contemplated.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

He regularly deprecates himself with a dry wit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2023

On the one hand, he deprecates the continuities between the twentieth-century cults and the more improvisatory autocrats of our day.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2019

However, it is specified that the Speaker "deprecates personal remarks about other Members".

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

Conversely, she is deeply interested in how contemporary culture feeds on and deprecates female vulnerability and pain.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2017

His Will expressly deprecates that "superfluitie of too gret curious werkes of entaille and besy moulding" which the ante-chapel now exhibits in the elaborate series of Royal coats of arms beneath every window.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

“Blocking public posts makes no sense. It needs to be deprecated in favor of a stronger form of mute,” Mr. Musk tweeted.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

There’s no official word from Google as to why it’s deprecated the feature, so we may never know for sure the reasoning behind Google abandoning it to its ever-increasing product graveyard.

From The Verge ● Nov. 5, 2021

But this is one of those shortcuts that needs to be deprecated because its basic premises no longer apply.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2019

In an article for the national tabloid Expressen, Engdahl deprecated the vulgarity of his opponents in the academy, and called them “a clique of bad losers … who plotted to wound and humiliate Katarina Frostenson”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

When the schism was healed at Constance, one of the earliest efforts of Martin V. was directed against the Fraticelli, whose increase in the Roman province he especially deprecated.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

His own company SpaceX, he now says, despite previously deprecating the moon, will focus on developing a “self-growing city” there “in less than 10 years.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

It’s niche, yes, but the folks interested in that niche are passionate about it, despite the deprecating memes.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2024

As early as 1989, Gaines had conceived of a show that would juxtapose powerful contemporary work by Black Americans with deprecating excerpts by art critics, highlighting the profound mismeasure of these artists’ achievements.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

There was a rustle and a slight, deprecating cough from the direction of the woods.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt