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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
Citizens, environmental groups and tribal stakeholders are demoralized by this and the prioritization of industrial logging, embrace of pseudoscience, non-transparency, poor responsiveness to public and expert comments, and meetings held while stakeholders are at work. John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for demoralized
Adjective
  • At the same time, suicide-attack FPVs incorporate AI navigation for autonomous terminal guidance under degraded control.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.
    Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hong Kong/Tokyo — Japan’s favorite beer brand is reeling from a cyberattack that paralyzed its production last week.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The family is reeling from the tragedy as Kinzely has been paralyzed from the neck down, her family said in a GoFundMe set up to assist with Kayleb's funeral and medical assistance for the surviving children.
    Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So as not to muddy either the political or familial waters, Franklin discouraged Temple from any contact with his father.
    Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That means builders are discouraged about the future.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sitting in class next to a star athlete destined for Division I football, the future comedy mogul listened as his teacher publicly humiliated him in front of his peers.
    Essence, Essence, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Is he humiliated by being asked to leave surreptitiously for Olivia’s amusement, or is this a game for him too?
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In one of many tonally jarring subplots, Vince works out a scam to burn down his dead mother’s house in Brooklyn to collect the insurance money with the help of a corrupt fire marshal.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The writer became inspired to counteract his complicity in a corrupt system.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There are liberals in media, but the corporations are now either controlled by the right wing or frightened of it.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Martin Odegaard hobbling off the Emirates pitch for the third time in as many starts would have frustrated Mikel Arteta, but having Martin Zubimendi waiting in the wings is a luxury any manager would dream of.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Youths frustrated at a social media ban, corruption and lack of economic opportunities coordinated mass protests via Discord that helped bring down the government.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Panthers are weakened without starting running back Chuba Hubbard.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Confidence in business conditions and job availability has weakened sharply, raising concerns that the spending power underpinning corporate growth could falter.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025

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