undermining
Example Sentences
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While these transactions are popular with private-equity investors, they have also attracted criticism for undermining businesses’ financial health.
The way Pope Leo saw it, powers were seeking to impose dominion through arms and undermining the taboo since World War II on changing borders by force.
Unhappily for the FCC, the same force helping to keep the big game on local TV in the short run is undermining it in the long run.
His killing, if confirmed, would be a major blow against the Islamic republic, undermining a key figure seen as capable of navigating both ideology and diplomacy.
From Barron's
In a letter to the Home Office, the largest consortium of current providers warned Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood the move risked undermining her wider goals to secure UK borders.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
