How to Use devaluation in a Sentence

devaluation

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  • Wealthy Brits who lived through the pound devaluation in 1992 feel the same way.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • This began to shift in 2013, after the devaluation of the yen made houses cheap.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 8 May 2021
  • But the centuries-long devaluation of frames can make this humble goal a Sisyphean task.
    — Eleanor Cummins, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
  • That means that for 40 years, Americans have not had to worry much about the price of goods and services changing from year to year or the devaluation of the U.S. Dollar.
    — Eric Brotman, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • And there’s a devaluation of not just creative work, but work everywhere and that needs to be addressed.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • In the summer of 1997, a massive crisis was triggered in the region by the devaluation of Thailand’s currency, the baht.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Inflation is at a five-year high and the Egyptian pound has lost nearly half of its value in a series of devaluations since March 2022.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Her devaluation as a human, based on the color of her skin in the United States still continues today in 2020.
    — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
  • Medicines haven’t gone into shortages so far, but the devaluation of the ruble has driven up prices, Mr. Rasshchupkin said.
    — Denise Roland, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But the devaluation of women is still culturally based and it's built into our systems in the same way.
    — Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At the root of this is what bell hooks refers to as the devaluation of Black womanhood, which began during slavery and still exists today.
    — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • More than half of working Turks earn around the minimum wage, which is worth less than $300 a month because of the Turkish lira’s vast devaluation against the dollar.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This clay-pigeon approach to inquiry struck her as a devaluation of all that criticism—and art—can do.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The goal has transitioned from fixing the devaluation to merely slowing the bleed.
    — Prem Ramkumar, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • In theory, the Bank of Japan could stanch the yen’s devaluation by raising interest rates.
    — New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • There's the cratered market around NFTs, the rapid devaluation and erratic behavior of many of the currencies.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In the wake of the #MeToo movement, women across the sports world started connecting their efforts to a broader discussion of the devaluation of women’s work.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
  • In Luo’s view, the cuts to the department reflect a more general devaluation of math in American life.
    — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2023
  • It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The devaluation of running backs — especially top ones — has drawn the ire of players at the position.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • One of the original sins of the Internet era was the radical devaluation of musical labor that took place with the rise of Napster.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Economists and analysts said that a sharp devaluation of the ruble would mean a drop in the standard of living for the average Russian.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The sanctions caused a massive devaluation in that country's currency, while the Bank of Russia more than doubled interest rates to 20% to slow runs on its banks.
    — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • There is widespread rumor that devaluation is in the making.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The comment re-exposed a cultural divide over intent versus action and the role that language plays in the devaluation of Black women.
    — Admin, Essence, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The release of a key tranche from that bailout remained on hold, causing a sudden increase in inflation and a devaluation of Pakistani's currency against the U.S. dollar.
    — Munir Ahmed, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024
  • For tax purposes, MLB is valuing the Ohtani contract at about $46 million a year, far less than the $70 million face value, reflecting the devaluation of deferred pay.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The moves follow weeks of turmoil in which a foreign exchange crisis in the island nation has forced a currency devaluation and sent the cost of basic goods such as food, medicine, and fuel soaring.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Of course they were revived in the Great Depression, and served as a justification for Roosevelt’s devaluation in 1933.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • For more than twenty years, since Napster gave people the idea that music should be free for the taking, a radical devaluation of musicians’ work has been under way.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2020

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