demonetized

past tense of demonetize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for demonetized
Verb
  • Billionaires and once-proud nations debased themselves in his presence.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 8 Nov. 2026
  • In my opinion, the president and his incompetent, corrupt acolytes have debased the office and dragged the good name of America through the mud.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • How funny that Stockholm produced both Spotify, the engine that devalued music and incentivizes constant data dumps, and the data dump’s biggest opp.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2026
  • By dint of sheer numbers — Instagram processes some 500 million uploads a day — the practice has been devalued.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Since the beginning of the year, the rupiah has depreciated by more than 7%, while rising oil prices and expectations of further US Federal Reserve interest rate hikes have added pressure on emerging markets.
    — , CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
  • As for how the yen depreciated, Japan's comparatively low interest rates have remained a key factor weighing on the currency.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • He was sentenced to four years’ probation and initially ordered to stay away from his ex-wife and two children for six years, which was later reduced to two years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • The film, set between the years 1945 and 1947, depicts a society struggling to recover from war, only to be reduced, once again, by the arrival of a kaiju (as giant monsters are known in Japanese, and to fans of the corresponding film genre).
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • Architecture becomes attenuated, non-monumental, a mass medium.
    — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • The experiment also generated data on how much the laser signal was attenuated while traveling between the ground and the stratosphere.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026
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“Demonetized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demonetized. Accessed 15 Nov. 2026.

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