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“I see these events as a disturbing pattern which will lead, eventually, to injustice and further vitiate the atmosphere prevailing in some parts of the country and stoke fires and retaliation,” Mr. Lokur said.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2021

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2019

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018

If not guarded against, this natural tendency will more or less vitiate the observer's first impressions, and introduce something of the ludicrous into his record of them.

From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau

If that evidence shows that someone else inflicted the wounds—if it casts doubt on whether Gutierrez caused, intended, or anticipated Harrison’s death—it vitiates the findings that made him eligible for the death penalty.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2025

Mr. Daley said the warning that plays at the beginning of these inmate calls constitutes “a voluntary waiver that vitiates privilege” for anyone on the call.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2018

Publishing in Cogent doesn’t merely muddy the waters on their point against gender studies, it completely vitiates it.

From Salon ● May 22, 2017

This stands in stark contrast to the unrelenting practice of broken windows policing, which places enormous pressures on police officers to cast wide nets of summonses and arrests and vitiates their professional capacities.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2015

He indeed not unfrequently so vitiates the sense of smell as actually to prefer those scents which, to persons who have preserved the integrity of this sense, are regarded as exceedingly offensive, and even filthy.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew

And, especially relevant to Edelman in this case: Is it vitiated by bad motives?

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

He also argued that her “excellent case for Mank is in the end more than somewhat vitiated by the publication of the script itself,” describing it as smart but superficial.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2020

“In such a vitiated atmosphere, it’s impossible for me to see Dil Bechara in isolation and gauge it on its own merits,” she wrote in the Film Companion, an online movie magazine.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2020

The prosecution's case was that the woman's consent was vitiated by Lawrance's deception.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2020

And yet a failure to recognize it has vitiated very much thinking in the field of economic theory.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

PBS SoCal does not value its own programs by vitiating the viewer’s experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

But a large Jeff Koons piece is droning nearby, vitiating thought with its generic monotone of irony.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2013

Pakistan summoned Afghanistan's chargé d'affaires on Thursday to protest "an unprovoked firing incident" that is "vitiating the friendly relations and creating avoidable tension between the two brotherly countries," the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2013

The vitiating element of self-interest would scarce fail to induce, ultimately at least, a suspicious habit of self-recommendation.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson