Examples of defang in a Sentence
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Working the Refs Microsoft isn’t counting on its market dominance alone to defang government oversight.
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Eric Geller, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
There were also signs that Biden and Trump are trying to defang some of the most damaging lines of attack against them.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Its characters, too, are contemporary: doppelgängers of our own vicious demagogues, cowed editors, greasy both-sides-ists and defanged idealists.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Larraín’s choice to make Pinochet a vampire is an especially lucid way of defanging him.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
The novel’s powerful literary identity is reduced to talking points, and even those are often defanged.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
Joel Finkelstein, a researcher at the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, said TikTok’s hashtag-view change suggested the company was similarly eager to defang researchers who wanted to uncover the platform’s problems.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
Lewis’ portrait of America is somewhat defanged in DiPietro’s adaptation.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Netanyahu’s Israel is a country in the throes of unprecedented domestic upheaval due to the government’s attempt to defang the checks on majoritarian power.
—Natan Sachs, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2023
Eric Geller, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024
There were also signs that Biden and Trump are trying to defang some of the most damaging lines of attack against them.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Its characters, too, are contemporary: doppelgängers of our own vicious demagogues, cowed editors, greasy both-sides-ists and defanged idealists.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
Larraín’s choice to make Pinochet a vampire is an especially lucid way of defanging him.
—Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024
The novel’s powerful literary identity is reduced to talking points, and even those are often defanged.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2024
Joel Finkelstein, a researcher at the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, said TikTok’s hashtag-view change suggested the company was similarly eager to defang researchers who wanted to uncover the platform’s problems.
—Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
Lewis’ portrait of America is somewhat defanged in DiPietro’s adaptation.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Netanyahu’s Israel is a country in the throes of unprecedented domestic upheaval due to the government’s attempt to defang the checks on majoritarian power.
—Natan Sachs, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2023
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“Defang.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defang. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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