undermine

Example Sentences

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“Powell’s legacy is likely to reflect a striking irony: It will have been secured by the man who sought most aggressively to undermine him,” Mohamed-El-Erian wrote in his recent appraisal of the Fed chair.

From MarketWatch • May 10, 2026

She acknowledged that foreigners had been victims but put this down to general criminality, which the police needed to deal with, and efforts to undermine the country.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

American pistachios are cultivated for maximum output and size, which is a desired quality for traders, but can also undermine the taste and complexities of the nut, some argue.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

Weakening the NIH could undermine America’s place in fast-moving fields like AI-biotech research, narrowing its global influence over the very rules and norms that will govern the future.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Challenges to the system will be easily absorbed or deflected, and the accommodations made will serve primarily to legitimate the system, not undermine it.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander