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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disvaluing
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Maybe dinner is simply about getting food on the table quickly or minimizing dishes while spending time with your family — and that can still count as a successful meal.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 May 2026 -
Maybe dinner is simply about getting food on the table quickly, or about minimizing dishes while spending time with your family — and Brown says that can still count as a successful meal.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
22 May 2026
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Look, writing off the Twins was stale before the season even started.—
John Shipley,
Twin Cities,
4 May 2026
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The problem is that too much money is made writing off losses on empty properties.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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In those messages, Rydman allegedly complained about Muslim women wearing headscarves and said disparaging things about people from Somalia, Nigeria and the Middle East.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Ortiz had made a number of disparaging posts about Rihanna on social media in the weeks leading up to the shooting.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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Hassane spoke at the afternoon news conference about the deadly attack at his institution this morning, decrying the conditions that could create such violence.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 May 2026
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People were decrying that at the time.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 May 2026
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The Co-Design Imperative A product that solves today's problems but cannot evolve alongside the buyer's needs is a depreciating asset.—
Eilon Reshef,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Across the global south currencies are depreciating, inflation has spiked, and unemployment is rising.—
Fatma Tanis,
NPR,
24 Apr. 2026
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How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
17 May 2026
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Our worst instincts as a society is manipulated from above — hating each other.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
13 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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The ruthlessness of the producers cutting folk off mid-speech or retracting the microphone and upping the music volume was belittling to those on stage.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
16 Mar. 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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The 45-year-old actor has always projected a sort of likable, hunky lunkhead persona, giving the movies their equivalent of the campus jock that secretly had a sly sense of self-deprecating humor and theater-department chops.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Disvaluing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disvaluing. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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