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stultify

[stuhl-tuh-fahy] / ˈstʌl təˌfaɪ /


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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Now, that can stultify a pope, in which neutrality becomes an end in itself.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2015

So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2011

The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010

Where dramatists in training waste their nervous energy and often stultify their best desires is in keeping critical tab upon themselves as they create.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce




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