as in to vulgarize
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Recent Examples of coarsen
If Trump’s effect on the Republican Party was simply to coarsen it, then progressives might have grimaced and taken it.
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The New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2022
But Democrats were helping to coarsen it long before Trump came along.
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Marc A. Thiessen,
The Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2019
In a country so divided and coarsened, does one person’s private struggle for moral purity really matter?
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Danny Heitman,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2018
Look, the culture has been coarsened, the entertainment industry, music, film, billboards, television, everything is over sexualized or too violent or just dumped down altogether.
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Fox News,
3 Aug. 2018
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The New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2022
But Democrats were helping to coarsen it long before Trump came along.
—
Marc A. Thiessen,
The Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2019
In a country so divided and coarsened, does one person’s private struggle for moral purity really matter?
—
Danny Heitman,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2018
Look, the culture has been coarsened, the entertainment industry, music, film, billboards, television, everything is over sexualized or too violent or just dumped down altogether.
—
Fox News,
3 Aug. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coarsen
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His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.
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Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
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Long before Rudd unknowingly ingests psychedelic drugs and nearly kills Josh, with Marcus having to perform an emergency tracheotomy, Little Brother has long worn out its welcome.
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But by 1972, Clayton-Thomas was worn out by the group's extensive touring and left the band.
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The researchers observed an unchallenged system—fibroblasts were depleted, but the skin was never additionally stressed.
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During one trip home from the doctor, his wife had a seizure that depleted her portable oxygen tank.
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Season 2 follows two couples on a path of mutual destruction, one older and jaded and one young and naive.
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Even jaded Knicks fans concede this rematch is more balanced – and the orange and blue have much more than a puncher’s chance.
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They can get dehydrated and overexposed to the sun and are unable to cool down.
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The background appears splotchy and overexposed, but to my dismay, the selfie camera did not miss my messy eyebrows or the minor imperfections on my skin.
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Meanwhile, existing antibiotics have been overused, and resistance has mounted to critical levels.
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The fastest ways to lose that hotel feel include overusing plug-ins, which read as synthetic, and mixing too many competing fragrances at once.
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Along with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the foundation also partners with schools and community institutions to educate the challenging effects of stereotyping, unconscious bias, and representation imbalance of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and persons with disabilities.
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Brousson jokingly stereotyped the Waffle House staffers as having active warrants, picking their nose with the spatulas and smoking cigarettes while battling third-degree grease burns.
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“Coarsen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarsen. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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