traduce
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Artificial-intelligence researchers rush to create it, even though computer-as-brain metaphors traduce the complexity of human biology, at least for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
“The government will in no way traduce or criticize the work of the committee who are doing exactly what Parliament has asked them to do.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
Art for art’s sake recognized that if you subordinate art to an idea like “the greater good,” you traduce it.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
From this, the department began micromanaging institutions’ disciplinary practices in ways that traduce constitutional guarantees.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2018
“Mrs. Watson,” he said, “I’d like to in- traduce you to your long-lost son from Siam, His Royal Highness, Yul Watson!”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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But valuing a forest for that purpose traduces what forests are.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2017
Nor can he who traduces my bretheren—my kindred—my home—all that I most venerate and revere—honor me so much as by traducing me.
From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
A wife and mother cannot thus absolve her own soul; she simply disgraces and traduces her holiest work.
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware
One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
But Tony Badenoch QC, the prosecutor at Beech's trial, said the defendant had "traduced reputations" with the "the most lurid accusations".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2020
“Throughout history, women have been traduced and silenced. Now, it’s our time to tell our own stories in our own words.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2018
More troubling, Bouvier has also traduced the idea of what an art dealer should be.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
This is, after all, a regime that traduced all diplomatic norms by seizing the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2015
For the most part mocked at, traduced and ridiculed by the leaders, these men were helpless, for the minds and hearts of rulers and people were set on mischief.
From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler
It’s an approach now so mainstream that it’s become an orthodoxy of its own; it’s difficult to think of a writer today, of any genre, who doesn’t congratulate herself for traducing artificial binaries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
Just as Mabey wonders if we can extract wellbeing from an environment we are traducing, so Jones considers the 21st-century challenge posed by ecological grief.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020
Yale has been seduced by a $150 million “bells and whistles” student center into traducing the best of what it and Holloway have stood for.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2019
Are you comfortable with this traducing of due process?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2015
His letters show him to have been an adept in the art of traducing colleagues behind their backs.
From Sea-Power and Other Studies by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
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