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traduce

[truh-doos, -dyoos] / trəˈdus, -ˈdjus /


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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

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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