as in reduces
to diminish the price or value of
normally, significant damage would devalue an antique
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Recent Examples of devalues
The championing of generative AI devalues our ability to read and to think and to comprehend, to be moved by art, and to interact with and criticize it.
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Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
As Black women mourn her loss and grapple with the realities of a capitalist system that devalues our lives and labor, we are comforted by the legacy Assata Shakur leaves behind.
—Essence, 30 Sep. 2025
There’s a common misconception that automation devalues human work—or that AI will simply put everyone out of work.
—Shyam Ravindranathan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In the current format, labeling the FedEx Cup winner as the tour champion devalues a season’s worth of play.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Finding the same class elsewhere for free devalues the site.
—Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
As Black women mourn her loss and grapple with the realities of a capitalist system that devalues our lives and labor, we are comforted by the legacy Assata Shakur leaves behind.
—Essence, 30 Sep. 2025
There’s a common misconception that automation devalues human work—or that AI will simply put everyone out of work.
—Shyam Ravindranathan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In the current format, labeling the FedEx Cup winner as the tour champion devalues a season’s worth of play.
—Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
Finding the same class elsewhere for free devalues the site.
—Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devalues
reduces
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This enables continuous charging and reduces the need for large onboard batteries.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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As a stocky playmaker who rarely sprints and often reduces the game to walking pace in an increasingly breakneck sport populated by iron men, Cherki’s timing of arrival into English football is where the dichotomy lies.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Devalues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devalues. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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