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Recent Examples of devaluation
Conveniently, this system would also make the United States the world’s economic center of gravity and prevent currency devaluations that could harm American exports.
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 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
While the grandiose gestures may seem romantic and well-intentioned, love bombing is almost always followed by devaluation and criticism.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The plan has faced criticism over cost priorities amid Egypt's economic struggles, which have prompted multiple devaluations of the pound—from around 7 EGP to the dollar in 2015 to nearly 50 today.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 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
While the grandiose gestures may seem romantic and well-intentioned, love bombing is almost always followed by devaluation and criticism.
—Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The plan has faced criticism over cost priorities amid Egypt's economic struggles, which have prompted multiple devaluations of the pound—from around 7 EGP to the dollar in 2015 to nearly 50 today.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for devaluation
Noun
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That prospect creates tremendous angst among activists who worry about the degradation of storage canisters over time.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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The research shows that the batteries generate heat under high-load conditions to counteract performance degradation, a finding intended to create more resilient energy storage systems.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Initial jobless claims indicate only a minimal pickup in layoffs and/or deterioration in labor conditions at present, a positive dynamic.—
Jeffrey Schulze,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The largest member of the grass family, bamboo is combustible, susceptible to deterioration and weaker in rain, raising legitimate questions about its durability, Arup’s Ho said.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Those trades were made ahead of Friday’s big jobs report for August, which showed the labor market weakening.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
8 Sep. 2025
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Within 24 hours, the storm was expected to begin a slow weakening.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Chinese authorities said that headline CPI had slipped into negative territory largely due to the high-base last year and lower food prices, while crediting the narrower decline in producer prices in part to Beijing's efforts in regulating the excessive price competition.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Apple—which topped the World’s Best Companies list in 2024—is notably absent this year due to a decline in revenue from 2022 to 2024, which many Wall Street analysts have postulated could be due to the company falling behind on AI.—
Charlotte Hu,
Time,
10 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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But Chip started to have health problems and also had a falling out with administration.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Aug. 2025
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Exposure to warm, humid air and bugs in the outdoors will speed up the decay even more.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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The diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, a brain disorder caused by degeneration of the brain's frontal lobe, comes nearly a year after Willis' family confirmed the movie icon, now 67, was stepping away from acting due to an aphasia diagnosis.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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And their medial knee cartilage showed less worsening, suggesting slower cartilage degeneration.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Aug. 2025
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For them, dupes aren't a downgrade.—
Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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Recent downgrades by ratings agencies Fitch and Moody’s have raised questions on Afreximbank’s lending, especially to distressed African states.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Devaluation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devaluation. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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