How to Use downgrade in a Sentence

downgrade

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• But that brings us to credit risk and the Fitch downgrade.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• The new forecast marks a downgrade from the 4% the IMF had predicted at the beginning of the year.
  — Paul Wiseman, ajc, 19 Apr. 2022
• To be sure, the Moody's report wasn't a downgrade in its rating or even a change to its outlook.
  — Quentin Webb, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
• The Fitch debt downgrade is a reasonable response to those crises.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• What is the impact of the US credit rating downgrade for the government?
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• There's also the Instant Pot Pro—a slight downgrade from our top pick—for a little less.
  — Haley Sprankle Gear Team, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2022
• The World Bank came out of the Easter break yesterday with some bad news: a global growth downgrade.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2022
• In 2011, a prolonged fight over the debt limit led to a downgrade in the nation’s credit rating.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
• In light of those ads, a plain old celebrity endorsement feels like a downgrade.
  — Vulture, 24 June 2022
• Several of them hustled over to Fox Business to blame Biden for the downgrade.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• That’s what merited the first-ever downgrade of US debt in 2011.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 31 May 2023
• In 2011, stocks tanked following news of the credit downgrade.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
• With nobody left to upgrade, there is nothing to do but wait for the dreaded downgrade.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• The debt ceiling crisis of recent months was also a main driver of the downgrade.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2023
• As a result of this reliance, the iPhone sales drop led to a wave of analyst downgrades for Apple’s stock last week.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The downgrade came despite strong sales of the twin titles, released in November.
  — Takashi Mochizuki, Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2023
• The downgrade came as past efforts have failed to help Egypt’s economy, which was saddled with about $160 billion in debt as of the end of last year.
  — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
• Rather than appreciate the savings, the band largely viewed it as a downgrade from their last ride.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• The zoom lens is kind of a weird downgrade—older Ultra models had a 10x optical zoom via a periscope lens, and this one doesn't.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• That is a downgrade from a January forecast of 4.4 percent growth this year.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Utah’s admitted downgrade at the position would be offset by adding a 3-and-D forward to the mix.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 June 2022
• Now, after the downgrade, that interest rate has spiked to 4.18 percent.
  — Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• That was actually a slight downgrade from the group’s 2017 downgrade.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024
• But Fitch’s downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating seems to be the least of investors’ concerns.
  — Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2023
• The hotel, which was always the draw, got a downgrade when the building’s best real estate was given over to condos.
  — Curbed, 27 Nov. 2023
• Still, some analysts say that downgrades from other ratings agencies could be in the cards.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Though the processors see a downgrade, the maximum memory size is the same as the flagship Pixel 4 at 128GB.
  — Albert Khoury, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2023
• But only in this context can that be considered a downgrade.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2022
• Viewership records for Stranger Things weren’t enough to save Netflix shares from being hit with a downgrade on Tuesday.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2022
• The recent pullback has been aided by a downgrade from Barclays analysts, who this week put a bearish tag on the shares.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024

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downgrade

2 of 2 verb

• The restaurant was downgraded from three to two stars.
• She didn't intend to downgrade the importance of her colleague's work.
• In the deal, the charges were downgraded from felony counts.
  — Mo Syed, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• The debt ceiling crisis of 2011 caused Standard and Poor’s to downgrade US debt for the first time in history.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 10 May 2023
• Bungle that and the shot gets downgraded to a basic return.
  — Vulture, 7 Sep. 2023
• Last week, Moody’s warned a government shutdown could prompt it to downgrade US debt.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Mon dieu—in the Michelin Guide’s 2023 edition for France, two three-star restaurants have been downgraded.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2023
• Or at the very least, in the hands of a country that has been downgraded as a partner to Europe so significantly in the past decade.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
• Late last month, the murder charge against Brandt was downgraded to manslaughter, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.
  — Ken Bensinger, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• The uncertainty may be even greater in China, which was just downgraded by Moody’s this week.
  — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• This is because upgrading A results in downgrading B so that B is now the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• There's this wrinkle where Gordon downgrades her to appearing as a writer and not a comic.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 May 2023
• In 2022, though, Russians rated their lives higher in happiness, by about the same amount as the Ukrainians downgraded theirs.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• The leakage has been downgraded from an initial estimate of 5.5 tons.
  — Mari Yamaguchi, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• It was dragged down by tech stocks after Barclays downgraded Apple and the iPhone maker fell nearly 4%.
  — Harold Maass, theweek, 3 Jan. 2024
• Thanks to these trends, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has downgraded its olive-oil outlook.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
• By the time Isabel’s effects were felt in Baltimore that evening, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• In 1979, that lighthouse was downgraded to an unmanned light station, with the light itself replaced by new light on a steel tower.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Bulls bail Since then, at least two analysts have downgraded the stock, while several have cut their price targets on the stock.
  — Esha Dey, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• That’s more good short-term news as much of the state marks downgraded drought statuses, but experts warn that more wild swings are in store for California long-term.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• As of Wednesday evening, the storm was downgraded to a tropical depression.
  — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 31 Aug. 2023
• If some labels get downgraded later this year, though, that could deal a blow to the market, which is already reeling from an 8 percent drop in exports last year.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
• All 12 hotels were also recognized on last year's Forbes list, though two were downgraded.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2024
• Along with omitting why the other cases had charges either dropped or downgraded, López did not disclose that detail.
  — Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
• However, in August of 2006, Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
• In Hawaii, which also was slammed by the huge swells this week, the weather service downgraded a high surf warning to an advisory Friday.
  — Marcio Sanchez, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2023
• In a weird stroke of irony, the U.S. government’s credit rating was downgraded the same day that Donald Trump was indicted for a historic third time.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• Idalia was downgraded further to a tropical storm after its wind speeds dropped below 74 mph.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
• This month, a rating agency downgraded U.S. credit for the second time in the nation's history.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
• The property sector’s downturn led the IMF to downgrade its growth estimates for the Chinese economy.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024