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demoralized

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verb

past tense of demoralize
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Recent Examples of demoralized
Adjective
But a new study has found that such workplace jargon may be doing more harm than good—making employees feel confused, demoralized and less likely to collaborate with their coworkers. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025 The octogenarian trying to reach a new generation of voters amid a demoralized Democratic Party is a stark juxtaposition. Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
Jen DeLorenzo, a career coach and founder of professional coaching business The Career Raven, says that several of her clients are feeling demoralized due to long job searches. Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025 The departures leave a leadership void that, according to current and former CDC officials, has demoralized the agency’s staff and will further undermine its ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans. Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2025 According to a friend who works at Social Security, top leaders have quit, staff is demoralized and many are concerned about DOGE personnel accessing our personal data, violating security protocols and pushing a complete and rapid overhaul of the entire computer systems. Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025 If team owners could influence scorekeeping, fans would lose interest, players would be demoralized and sponsors would back away as public trust collapses. Brent Dykes, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 The Democrats are shell-shocked and demoralized. Llewellyn King, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025 The months-long soap opera captivated the NBA world and demoralized Magic fans. Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 7 Mar. 2025 Hernandez and two other former staffers who attended that meeting testified that they were shocked and demoralized by Platt’s attitude. Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2025 Some antiracists have been pretty demoralized by recent events. John Blake, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demoralized
Adjective
  • Smoke will also lead to degraded air quality.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The challenge grows in degraded or denied GPS environments, where many existing bombs lose precision.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Quantity beats quality when you're paralyzed by perfection.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And during trial, I was also threatened to be paralyzed by Elijah.
    Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the State Public Defender office is struggling to attract law school graduates who are discouraged by low pay and the demanding nature of public defender appointments while still paying off student loans.
    MARGARET SHREINER, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Her ancestor’s analytic model discouraged self-revelation by the therapist, but Freud often meets her guests’ excavations of desire and vulnerability with her own candid recollections.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All that to be humiliated in the Orlando bubble?
    Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Inter Miami, clearly humiliated, let out its frustrations after the final whistle, when several Miami players, led by Luis Suarez, got into a scuffle with Seattle players.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • According to the latest 2024 Transparency International report, the Americas average 42 out of 100 points on a scale where 100 is very transparent and zero is very corrupt.
    Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • With the help of Landy and Nicky Parsons, Bourne goes up against Vosen (David Strathairn), the corrupt director of Operation Blackbriar.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Family pets, especially dogs, are frightened by the noise and will hide or try to run away.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In the first Nobody, Odenkirk’s Hutch has to reignite the sleeping assassin within himself after his family was frightened by a botched home invasion.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Economic insecurity and political corruption have for years left many of Nepal’s youth frustrated, setting the stage for today’s protest movement.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As a baby boomer and an amateur genealogist, I am continually frustrated by the lack of interest my grandchildren’s generation seems to have in learning about their family history — particularly mine.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Childhood illnesses had severely weakened her own heart.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the legal safeguards against such encounters have weakened.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025

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