devitalizing

present participle of devitalize
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for devitalizing
Verb
  • And this misapplication, whether through inappropriate comparisons and limited context, or a disregard for methodological boundaries, risks undermining both consumer and stakeholder trust in sustainability claims and data integrity—and misleading investments and interventions.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Examples of creative destruction include e-commerce disrupting retail, streaming services replacing videocassette and DVD rentals and internet advertising undermining newspaper advertising.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By suddenly disclosing its true holdings, China could drive up gold prices while signaling stronger backing for the renminbi, thus weakening the dollar’s global clout.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Recent economic data has suggested a weakening labor market and inflation up a touch, but not so much as to crack the stock market.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The region’s cool climate, long sunny days, and well-draining soils create the ideal conditions for producing crisp, aromatic wines with vibrant fruit flavors.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Parents supporting their children’s tuition can now pursue their own degrees without draining family finances.
    Jason Phillips, Freep.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Persistent challenges, such as elevated input costs and softening demand from key markets like China, have pressured margins across the industry.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In its most recent statement, the Federal Reserve warned of stagflation, with the economy slowing, job gains softening, unemployment creeping higher, and inflation staying elevated.
    Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Betelgeuse, formally known as Alpha Orionis, will one day end its life in a spectacular supernova explosion upon exhausting the last of its fuel, which could be as bright as the full moon.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The policy at hand says district employees aren’t allowed to physically restrain a student except in emergency situations when a student’s behavior is immediately dangerous and after exhausting less intrusive alternatives.
    Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As early as 2014, scientists had discovered signs of sea star wasting disease in at least twenty species across the Pacific coast.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Recovering and processing that gas, instead of wasting it, could ease Iraq's chronic power shortages.
    Emma Graham, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Some of these values—such as a disciplined commitment to physical fitness—are good and, in my opinion, necessary correctives to the enervating distractions of 21st-century living.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Looming over all of it has been the sad, enervating situation with Alexander Isak, forever enshrined as a club legend by dint of Wembley last season but now beyond the point of tarnishing that legacy.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Now, Sora 2 might just be another online fad, a reality-deadening distraction that people will soon tire of.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Thin sound deadening The Enabling Technology prize went to CompositeEdge GmbH and ATA Mute BV for a new kind of sound deadening.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Devitalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devitalizing. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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