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She accused Mr Zubair of "peddling a fake-narrative to vitiate the atmosphere, cause communal disharmony & cause communal & targeted hatred against me & my family".

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2022

“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

“We don’t tell Metro they have to vitiate existing labor contracts,” or weaken pension guarantees or limit overtime, as Comstock’s bill does, he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2018

Böhm-Bawerk recognizes very well that the charge of circular reasoning, if it could be brought home to the Austrians, would vitiate their system.

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

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

In the same manner it might be shown how, all along through the writings of the Limitists, the Understanding runs along by the Reason, and vitiates her efforts to solve her problems.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

“In an awfully vitiated age, where ordinary courage has become rare, I thank her for standing by the truth,” the statement said.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2021

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

“ICMR’s intentions may be good but the processes have been vitiated and the risk is it can derail the vaccine,” he says.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2020

The term catarrhal pock, however, is not vitiated by an extension of the morbid process deep enough to produce a permanent cicatrix, and it is probable that in most cases the catarrhal type predominates.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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

To me it appears any thing but easy to separate the functions of a revealer of truly inspired truth from the vitiating influences of a fallacious logic.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers