as in to vulgarize
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Recent Examples of coarsen
To his detractors, Roy was — more than any other single figure — responsible for coarsening the political discourse in the United States, eroding public trust in journalism and providing a platform for xenophobia, misogyny and climate denialism.
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Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2023
By transitioning from marketplace to megaphone, Twitter will further coarsen America’s political discourse.
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Daniel Tenreiro,
National Review,
7 Nov. 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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Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2023
By transitioning from marketplace to megaphone, Twitter will further coarsen America’s political discourse.
—
Daniel Tenreiro,
National Review,
7 Nov. 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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Most of the books were dog-eared, broken in, and worn out from the years of little hands taking them on and off the shelves.
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And like anything else, string trimmer lines wear out over time.
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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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At 3x, the Razr+'s image processing tried to save the shot by overexposing the dish, but unfortunately, my dinner just looks like an inedible oil painting with a glossy sheen.
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They can get dehydrated and overexposed to the sun and are unable to cool down.
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Although the word ‘hero’ is greatly overused in today’s society, in my mind, Calvin Duncan is a hero in the truest sense of that word.
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Meanwhile, existing antibiotics have been overused, and resistance has mounted to critical levels.
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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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