vitiate

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

He said that this approach would vitiate the idea of checks and balances at the heart of congressional oversight.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020

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

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 Martineau, Harriet

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

The truth is, slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Helper, Hinton Rowan

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

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

“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

“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

Now Bj�rnson feels this responsibility with all the strength of his nature, and however admirable it may be as a moral quality, it has vitiated his artistic career.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

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

These dreams were better than the feverish, vitiating novels some of the girls poured over in private.

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie