depraving

present participle of deprave

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Verb
  • Design for Choice, Not Chaos Present customers with multiple options, from digital wallets to local payment rails, without degrading user experience.
    Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Are officials degrading citizens’ Internet access to sell them VPNs?
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This comes as reports continue to roll in that another August update fail has been corrupting PC SSDs when writing large files.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • May End Up Carrying Weapons—Report Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.
    Stan Chu Ilo, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That underscored rising concerns of weakening in the labor market, a trend that has shown up in anecdotal evidence for several months.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Beyond the broader ecological catastrophes that await us, wildfires harm people with smoke that can travel hundreds of kilometers from the source fire, poisoning people with small particles and a portfolio of toxins.
    Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the mid-1890s, her former landlords Israel and Lovey Dunham died after sudden illnesses; Toppan later acknowledged poisoning them, according to Boston Magazine.
    Christina Coulter, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The term went viral on TikTok to describe conventionally attractive women who attempt to seem quirky or relatable by subverting typically feminine behavior.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But they are built on improving, rather than subverting, what players expect from a genre.
    G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • By 6 months old, Luka was in end-stage liver failure, and his condition was deteriorating rapidly.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Nvidia’s price momo is deteriorating, slowly, according to the look here.
    John Navin, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This announcement, humiliating the involved member, is harmful.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Avoid using excessive water to prevent damaging the floors.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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