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traduces

verb

present tense third-person singular of traduce

as in violates

to fail to keep a law that traduces one of our most cherished rights: the right to privacy

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to make untrue and harmful statements about my opponent in this campaign may villainously traduce me, but I will not stoop to his level

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In addition to the First Amendment, TikTok, Meta and Google argue that the law violates Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which shields tech companies from liability for material posted on their sites by third parties.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2026
In September, Numme sued her landlord, alleging that the elimination of her parking violates California’s fair housing and disability laws, as well as city tenant anti-harassment laws.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026

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Darker smears around the crater’s rim contain surface rocks and lunar dust called regolith previously altered by solar winds, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation over an extended period of time.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
The atmosphere works on them a little bit harder and reduces their strength and smears them a little bit more.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026

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But those days are over, and American Christians must come to terms with the fact that the society which once embraced them now increasingly vilifies them.

— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2026
At war’s end, the narrative that develops valorizes physical courage, glorifies battlefield heroics, and vilifies hubris.

— Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025

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Taking aim at history on the exact 250th anniversary of the United States, the White House Domestic Policy Council released a report on July 4 that discredits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

— Nora Oakes Howard, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2026
The praiseworthyness of having both sides of the debate evaporates when the host actively discredits the expert and reflexively enhances the legitimacy of the conspiracy theorist.

— Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 1 Dec. 2025

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