Examples of devalue in a Sentence
The government has decided to devalue its currency.
Economic woes forced the government to devalue.
He argues that placing too many requirements on schools devalues the education they provide.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
Writing diminished the importance of memory, and calculators devalued basic arithmetic skills, as the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah recently wrote in this magazine.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
They were being demeaned for that, or devalued for that in this critical time.
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Years of inflation have devalued the six-figure income.
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Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
Writing diminished the importance of memory, and calculators devalued basic arithmetic skills, as the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah recently wrote in this magazine.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025
They were being demeaned for that, or devalued for that in this critical time.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 16 Nov. 2025
Years of inflation have devalued the six-figure income.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 14 Nov. 2025
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“Devalue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/devalue. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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devalue
transitive verb
de·val·ue
(ˌ)dē-ˈval-(ˌ)yü 
devalued; devaluing
1
: to institute the devaluation of (money)
2
: to lessen the value of
devaluing assets
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