Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disvaluing
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Three-dimensional tracking of meteors is a game changer, allowing scientists to pinpoint landing sites and retrieve meteorites rapidly after impact, minimizing contamination from our terrestrial environment.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026 -
Each head has its own wiper and pad for the nozzle to sit on, minimizing oozing between swaps.—
Michael Lydick,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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No one was writing off Raman anymore.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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Forsaking clay, if only in terms of expectations, means writing off a little more than 20 percent of the season, a quarter of the Grand Slams and, for now, a third of the most important ATP tournaments, the Masters 1000s.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Garbarino, the chairman, who is White, said House rules don’t allow disparaging members of Congress, witnesses like Mullin, or the president or vice president.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Any one of the disclosures about Platner, which include making jokes about masturbation, making antisemitic remarks, disparaging the military and blaming women for rape, would have spelled the end for another candidate.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
2 June 2026
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Protesters decrying overtourism have shot water pistols at tour buses.—
Seth Doane,
CBS News,
7 June 2026
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This was not Myles Garrett decrying organizational ineptitude until the Cleveland Browns dropped $160 million on the edge rusher’s doorstep.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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The Last Action Hero during the height of Schwarzenegger’s popularity was an extremely self-aware and self-depreciating deconstruction that, as noted already, was doing what Deadpool does before anyone knew how to react to it.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Drivers needed affordable, flexible access without ownership, while owners were sitting on depreciating, underused assets.—
Hebron Sher,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Squidward's entire existence is a joke about hating your job, and that's not exactly preschool material.—
Alex Shoemaker,
Parents,
6 June 2026
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Perpetrators of this attack weren’t born hating Muslims.—
Zainab Chaudry,
Baltimore Sun,
22 May 2026
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The remark was meant to be an insult, belittling a company that seemed to care more about hardware profit margins than design and innovation.—
Janko Roettgers,
The Verge,
28 May 2026
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Meeting a partner’s family can be challenging in any circumstance; anxieties about a family member saying something rude or belittling can only compound that.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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Our task, in the year of the United States’ two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, is to deprovincialize the Revolution, without unduly deprecating its originality.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The internet personality was particularly known for satirical skits and deprecating humor, earning a Shorty Award and several Streamy Award nominations.—
Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Disvaluing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disvaluing. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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