How to Use devaluation in a Sentence
devaluation
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If saving were the same as devaluation, there would be no savers.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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That sounds about right, since the fund has a record of preferring devaluation to sound money.
—Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
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But the centuries-long devaluation of frames can make this humble goal a Sisyphean task.
—Eleanor Cummins, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
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Tariffs, which are close cousins of currency devaluation, act in the same way.
—Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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And there’s a devaluation of not just creative work, but work everywhere and that needs to be addressed.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
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To begin with, homes will see a 13 percent devaluation and maybe more.
—Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 3 Nov. 2017
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Wealthy Brits who lived through the pound devaluation in 1992 feel the same way.
—Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
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Barkley called the devaluation of running backs a narrative that was designed to keep salaries down.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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This clay-pigeon approach to inquiry struck her as a devaluation of all that criticism—and art—can do.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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This makes the concept of credit card devaluations all the more relevant.
—Ryley Amond, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
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But the devaluation of women is still culturally based and it's built into our systems in the same way.
—Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
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That models’ private lives have been recast as a kind of labor contributes to the devaluation of their work.
—Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
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Their own excesses played a big role, but the dollar’s ascent made devaluation inevitable.
—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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The goal has transitioned from fixing the devaluation to merely slowing the bleed.
—Prem Ramkumar, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
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At the same time, there are growing concerns that the Lebanese currency, the lira, is at risk of devaluation.
—Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
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The question, however, is whether their support of him ends up playing a tacit role in the overall devaluation of the far right.
—Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017
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This began to shift in 2013, after the devaluation of the yen made houses cheap.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 8 May 2021
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Some of the devaluations downtown, that creates sort of a whiplash effect on our property taxes.
—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 Dec. 2025
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In such a scenario, there simply isn't enough gold in the world to meet the demand that would arise from a significant devaluation of the dollar.
—Bob Haber, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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But the positional devaluation of running backs does force you to pause for a moment when seeing Love that high.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
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Mr Fernández warned in the final days of the campaign that devaluation of the peso was coming.
—The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
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In my view, the key risk of quantitative easing is the potential devaluation of the dollar.
—Reco McCambry, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
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The devaluation of running backs — especially top ones — has drawn the ire of players at the position.
—Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 17 July 2023
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At the root of this is what bell hooks refers to as the devaluation of Black womanhood, which began during slavery and still exists today.
—Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
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Metro officials say the fare price was raised because of a devaluation of the currency, rising fuel costs and the need for maintenance.
—Fox News, 20 Oct. 2019
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No defaults and no devaluations.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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In theory, the Bank of Japan could stanch the yen’s devaluation by raising interest rates.
—New York Times, 10 May 2022
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Fire‑prone and flood‑exposed regions may face structural devaluation if construction practices do not adapt.
—Cyril Petit, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
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Digitization too often brings the devaluation of place and time.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026
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It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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