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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disvaluing
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But in our experience, many businesses benefit from a middle-ground strategy that maximizes compatibility while minimizing disruption.—
Thomas Berndorfer,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026 -
These bachelor groups allow non-breeding males to live social lives while minimizing competition, the zoo says.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
14 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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Richards had made disparaging comments about women’s bodies and out-of-bounds discourse on Jewish and Asian people as well as little people and the mentally disabled.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2026
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At one point, while Steyer was disparaging oil companies in California for pollution, Porter questioned why his hedge fund had previously invested in the same kinds of fossil fuel companies.—
Anne Bryson,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The shooting prompted protests decrying police shootings, and activists called for the arrest and prosecution of the officer.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Nearly eighty Mexican cultural figures have signed an open letter decrying the installation of Pedro Reyes’s Tlali in the plaza of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
6 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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The results of the draft lottery will matter enormously, of course, as does finding creative ways to shed some of the club’s exorbitant commitments to depreciating veteran assets while accumulating meaningful futures.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Salieri goes from hating Mozart from afar to interacting with him constantly, and Mozart from an innocent turning to Salieri for advice to a more socially attuned figure immediately aware of Salieri’s disinterest in creative solidarity.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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Not to mention the mental energy spent hating someone.—
Dr. Howard Tucker,
CNBC,
10 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 19 May. 2026.
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