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Read More: The Battle for Our Memory Is the Battle for Our Country But debasing our history through censorship and ideological cherry-picking insults the memory of the nine saints who were murdered at Mother Emanuel, desecrating its sacred space all over again. Kevin Sack, Time, 3 June 2025 At its most depraved level, this is get-rich-quick music; these artist-grifters are like sycophantic workers debasing themselves for the Big Boss Algorithm. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 21 May 2025 An office that demands wisdom and restraint is now debased with churlish impulsivity, rambling incoherency and overt grift. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2025 His illuminating backstage account of cable news describes thoughtful journalists debasing themselves in their scramble to retain straying viewers. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for debase
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  • Today’s batteries depend on scarce resources like lithium and cobalt and degrade over time.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
  • These perform well at low to medium heat, but begin to degrade around 500 °F, potentially releasing harmful fumes that can pose health risks.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • And Sacks, a PayPal Mafia member and veteran Silicon Valley investor, is just the sort of titan of industry this town routinely devours and humiliates — from Rex Tillerson to, well, Elon Musk.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And whether the Carolina Panthers are just stuck in an endless loop of embarrassment, one that alternately humiliates and enrages their fans.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • For engineers, all this means coupling MLOps with DevOps by integrating retraining triggers, model validation steps and performance degradation alerts directly into deployment pipelines.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • High-speed charging generates substantial thermal energy, which can accelerate cell degradation, reduce the battery’s overall lifespan, and in rare cases, lead to safety issues like thermal runaway.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
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  • Those tactics are also used to generate funds meant to help the regime subvert international sanctions and develop its nuclear weapons programs, according to the US government.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Consistently subverting audience expectations, Don’t Breathe features an incredibly twisted game of cat-and-mouse.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Holmes likewise discredited the MS-13 accusation, for which prosecutors relied on the testimony of coöperating witnesses who either contradicted one another or were otherwise unreliable.
    Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Cordell report has since been discredited — missing transcripts, factual errors and even confusion of key witnesses.
    Matthew J. Frauenfeld, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Leading up to the protests, the hashtag #NepoBaby had been trending in the country, largely to criticize the extravagant lifestyles of local politicians' children and call out corruption, NPR previously reported.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Apart from lifting the ban on social media, the protesters’ other demands included that the Prime Minister resign and that Nepal establish an independent watchdog body similar to an ombudsman to monitor corruption.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • Foreign powers such as Russia and China, which challenge America and its allies from Europe to the Middle East to Taiwan and the South China Sea, have long been accused of exploiting such divisions through disinformation campaigns that inflame tensions and weaken confidence in American governance.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But around the equinoxes, the natural buffer weakens.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Beyond wait time fees, the DOJ complaint also details instances where Uber drivers allegedly refused service to passengers with service animals, canceled rides after learning a passenger was blind, or demeaned riders with disabilities.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Even worse, the guidelines gave room for chatbots to demean people by race and spread false medical claims.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025

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