erode
Example Sentences
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In the submission, the group said: "Inflation has eroded the real value of core funding in schools and special places; restoring it and protecting early help budgets will underpin timely support."
From BBC
Bad Bunny noted that he'd had to prepare his 13-minute segment in the middle of an extensive world tour, and joked that the pressure had eroded his competitive edge.
From BBC
The muscular euro arithmetically erodes bottom lines as the top 50 EU companies earn about 60% of their revenue outside the bloc, Peloso estimates.
From Barron's
It won’t be easy to erode China’s lead in critical minerals—it came out of an industrial strategy that was pursued for decades.
But he cautioned that court challenges take time — time in which “untold damage” can be done to erode public trust and to the officials caught in the middle.
From Salon
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