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

“Why? Because those algorithmic systems precisely are designed like a great, sort of giant spam filter to identify and deprecate and downgrade bad content.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

He added, “And as for the president, God bless his heart” — a phrase often used by genteel Southerners to politely deprecate someone.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2019

Need it be said that I have not the least desire to deprecate sincere emotion as a factor in progress?

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

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

Therefore Judaism deprecates every attempt to present a single individual, be he ever so noble or wise, as the ideal of all human perfection, as a perfect man, free from fault or blemish.

From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler

Earlier this year, the company conducted a “retirement interview” with one of its deprecated AI models to learn about its musings, reflections and perspectives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

“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

It is kind of intuitive at this point to say we have had hundreds of billions of dollars in 3D assets invested, and all of those essentially get deprecated after their first use.

From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022

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

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2019

He so deprecated the lack of central power in the government that he exaggerated the dangers of the people's rule.

From Famous American Statesmen by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Until the most recent episode, though, Alice’s entire personality has been scowls and deprecating hisses.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

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

“I was just an of country boy with my britches hangin’ out,” Gaines said to Belew with a little deprecating laugh.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger