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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

Yes: they all speak well of him, and they say that the Governor, Vaudreuil, treats him shamefully, or at least traduces him shamefully behind his back to the Government in France.

From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

As for his personal reflections, I would gladly know who are those 'wanton wives' he speaks of? who are those ladies of high stations that he so boldly traduces in his sermon?

From History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

He who traduces himself, sins with him who traduces another.

From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by William Ware

And next to him again is the beautiful, the accomplished, the witty, the fascinating, the tormenting, Lady Clarinda, who traduces herself to the said Captain by assertions which it would drive him crazy to believe.

From Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock

Ms Forbes says she does not know if seeing a public figure like her being "absolutely traduced" for her views has made them braver or more fearful.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023

If anything, we are now the ones being traduced by you.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2019

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

Now that is a fact stranger than fiction, which shows what sort of metal is in our women of the much abused and traduced nineteenth century.

From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood

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

You called Hamilton to the field for traducing you; I demand satisfaction from you for treacherously involving me and my family name with your own, in charges of disloyalty to the Government.

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable




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