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Recent Examples of devaluation
However, currency devaluation and lower inflation in Argentina took a bite out of sales.
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Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Barkley called the devaluation of running backs a narrative that was designed to keep salaries down.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
The country’s ongoing economic challenges, including currency devaluation and inflation, only exacerbate this burden.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
The multiple crises of the Birr’s devaluation, surging inflation, a foreign exchange scarcity, and the 2020-2022 war in the northern Tigray region, only added to the underlying challenge of setting up in a relatively closed economy.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Barkley called the devaluation of running backs a narrative that was designed to keep salaries down.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
The country’s ongoing economic challenges, including currency devaluation and inflation, only exacerbate this burden.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2025
The multiple crises of the Birr’s devaluation, surging inflation, a foreign exchange scarcity, and the 2020-2022 war in the northern Tigray region, only added to the underlying challenge of setting up in a relatively closed economy.
—Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for devaluation
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The team believes their approach could eventually help regions struggling with industrial contamination and agricultural degradation.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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Housing materials in artistic practice are fitting for an environment that is constantly under simultaneous construction and degradation, with sea levels continuing to rise, potholes throughout the city and as our own infrastructure buckles under the weight of an ever growing population.—
Mario Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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The causes of the deterioration are different in each case, and some of Washington’s grievances against Brazil, India, and South Africa—global swing states that will help dictate which country leads the world—are legitimate.—
Richard Fontaine,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Oct. 2025
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According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, CMT causes a range of sensory and motor symptoms, including numbness, tingling, pain, muscle weakness and atrophy — deterioration in cells, tissues, and organs.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Oct. 2025
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Columbus’s historic journey to the Caribbean occurred amid significant changes in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the exploration of the Canary Islands and Cape Verde, the weakening of Islam, and the rise of Christianity in the form of Catholicism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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That was obviously the weakening of your internal khozayka.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Since hip-hop hit a market peak in 2020, it's been a slow decline ever since, the outlet reports.—
Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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Blank sailings have only gotten more prevalent as ocean carriers aimed to stop months of declines in freight rates after a softer-than-usual peak shipping season.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
29 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps the most recent and high-profile is the infamous falling out between Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and the British Royal Family.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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The two men became friends, or at least acquaintances, in the late 1980s and had a falling out in 2004.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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Despite years of legal battles over the relocations, more than 150,000 bodies were exhumed from the 1920s to the early 1940s for the trip to Colma, each in various stages of decay.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Why didn’t evolution produce a more dependable version of the human body, less prone to malfunction and decay?—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Not only are relapses unpredictable but scientists have yet to explain the slow and insidious degeneration that often occurs even without new lesions.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Looking ahead, the research team plans to test the new compounds in animal and human studies, in hopes that this could lead to a new approach for slowing or repairing brain degeneration for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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But given a wave of recent concern about the bank’s lending approach — evidenced by two ratings downgrades by Fitch and Moody’s this year — the change of guard holds the potential for shaping Afreximbank in Elombi’s image.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The stock slipped slightly after the downgrade.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Devaluation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devaluation. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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