cheapening

present participle of cheapen
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheapening
Verb
  • The French prime minister was widely expected to lose the motion after failing to win support from political rivals on both the right and left for 2026 budget plans aimed at reducing the country's yawning budget deficit.
    Ganesh Rao,Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • At Tufts University, scientists have developed a new drug that aims to boost weight loss while also reducing the nausea, muscle loss and weight regain associated with popular GLP-1 medications.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Design for Choice, Not Chaos Present customers with multiple options, from digital wallets to local payment rails, without degrading user experience.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Are officials degrading citizens’ Internet access to sell them VPNs?
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This announcement, humiliating the involved member, is harmful.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The preliminary numbers in 2024 show that statewide education efforts in Missouri appear to have been especially successful in lowering the number of teens dying from fentanyl.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Hegseth has accused the military of lowering standards in the past and vowed to raise fighting standards.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This comes as reports continue to roll in that another August update fail has been corrupting PC SSDs when writing large files.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • May End Up Carrying Weapons—Report Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Further discrediting itself, Thursday’s writeup includes a marketing pitch for the SquareX platform.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Wolfenbarger’s defense attorneys began to focus on discrediting Norma as a witness after prosecutors relied on her testimony to show the jury that her daughter Melissa had allegedly suffered abuse at the hands of her husband before her 1998 disappearance, according to WSB-TV.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.
    Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That underscored rising concerns of weakening in the labor market, a trend that has shown up in anecdotal evidence for several months.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The term went viral on TikTok to describe conventionally attractive women who attempt to seem quirky or relatable by subverting typically feminine behavior.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But they are built on improving, rather than subverting, what players expect from a genre.
    G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Cheapening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheapening. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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