vitiate
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Giving that up, Professor Bale said, would vitiate the ideological rationale of her government and potentially turn her into a lame-duck leader until the next election, which she will have to call by early 2025.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 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
He appointed an Attorney General who had successfully fought to vitiate federal prohibitions on the execution of the mentally ill.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2017
Add to this, that both the writing and sentiments of most novels and romances are such as are only proper to vitiate your style, and to mislead your heart and understanding.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester
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