How to Use undercut in a Sentence

undercut

verb

• They undercut the competing store by 10 percent.
• Her behavior undercuts her own credibility.
• Higher yields in turn undercut prices for stocks and raise the pressure on the economy.
  — Stan Choe, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• Already, a chain gas station down the road has undercut his gasoline prices by a dime.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The very last scene, in classic Black Mirror style, undercuts the awfulness of it all with just a touch of on-the-nose bleak comedy. 8.
  — WIRED, 21 June 2023
• Instead of trying to recover and get back to Kennedy’s hip, Johnson tried to undercut the route.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• But Twitter’s new tiered access system undercuts all of that, the researchers said.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
• Never do the belly laughs undercut the bone-deep melancholy.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 15 Dec. 2022
• The futility of forcing Over the long term, Ma tells Fortune, mandates of any kind stand to undercut each of the goals managers say they’re meant to accomplish in the first place.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• Mixed messages threaten to undercut the impact of these PSAs, and soft targets can make for mealymouthed calls to action.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• By ferrying these men right to death’s door, the show undercuts their descent and turns one character’s heel turn into something of a leap.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• But some of the ticket-men working the streets on Opening Day say companies like Holzman’s have undercut their business.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• But the ad was frenetic and full of social media memes, which perhaps undercut its message.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
• But in most ways, the French conductor undercuts what feels like the current zeitgeist of tyrannical maestros.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• The enormity of the brothers’ daily struggles on the job was undercut by the decision to present their insights as twee homilies.
  — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
• That said, ongoing storms across the Midwest will exhale cool air, which may undercut storms or shunt the tornado risk farther south.
  — Naomi Schanen, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• The sudden slump undercut a game’s worth of effort, allowing another win to slip through the cracks as the Bulls remain just outside the play-in tournament.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• Mgdesyan also sought to undercut Pete’s description of the exact moment she was shot.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• So doesn’t that undercut your entire argument that there are two systems of justice in this country?
  — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
• Two fumbles undercut the Guardians, whose next game is Saturday at Las Vegas.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
• The contradiction is one of several that have undercut India’s efforts to lead on climate change ahead of the summit, which brings together the leaders of the world’s largest economies.
  — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• That undercuts a big attraction of Reddit—that its main page is a kind of greatest hits of an enormous community.
  — Max Eddy, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
• The strategy was to undercut countries like Taiwan by paying even lower wages.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
• Volkov said the election day actions won't stop the Kremlin producing a rigged result, but will undercut its claims there is near universal support for Putin.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2024
• But Arnold argued that would undercut Chapek too severely.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2022
• More traditional publishers have warned that a ruling in the states’ favor could undercut their First Amendment rights as well.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 23 Feb. 2024
• Their efforts will undercut any hostage release or moderate Arab efforts to end the Gaza war without a victory by Hamas.
  — Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Other witnesses have shared testimony with Congress that undercuts some of the IRS agents' core claims.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• But the siblings instead sold the products in the United States, undercutting business rivals, the indictment alleges.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2024
• Still, the picture that the study paints undercuts many current narratives about American schooling.
  — Daniel Buck, National Review, 26 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024