Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undercutting
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However, Garrett seems to want to have it both ways with the character (who’s writing her dissertation on virtue ethics), giving her integrity but then undermining her with doubts and eyeroll-inducing Gen Z clichés.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Aug. 2025 -
Lawyers for Monarez and the four senior leaders who resigned pointed to the politicization of the agency under Kennedy as undermining their ability to make scientifically sound decisions.—
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech,
The Hill,
29 Aug. 2025
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If the experience of illness is inevitably one of sapping solipsism, caretaking is its life-giving corollary.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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However, these decisions shouldn’t be sapping you of your energy altogether.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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America’s retreat from WHO deepens the damage by weakening global systems for monitoring outbreaks, reviewing evidence and maintaining databases such as the Global Burden of Disease.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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That underscored rising concerns of weakening in the labor market, a trend that has shown up in anecdotal evidence for several months.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Undercutting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undercutting. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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