How to Use devalue in a Sentence

devalue

verb
Definition of devaluenext
Synonyms for devaluenext
  • Economic woes forced the government to devalue.
  • He argues that placing too many requirements on schools devalues the education they provide.
  • The government has decided to devalue its currency.
  • Many of those spoke out and felt dismissed or devalued.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But there are changes each year, mostly to devalue your points or to extract more fees — or both.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Doing so would devalue the Hanson buck, hence the agreement.
    — Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The shocks have forced some nations to devalue sharply, others may soon follow.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • That the asset was devalued in the process was yet another break in Zucker’s favor.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 25 July 2023
  • Braun has since resold the masters to a third party, but Swift has forged ahead with a plan to devalue her old tracks by releasing new versions of them.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • New systems always seem, at first, to devalue craft, shift power, and wreck cultures and scenes.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The day after the primaries, the government devalued the peso by nearly 20%.
    — TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
  • To call it something else is a lie intended to devalue our labor.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • It’s always great to devalue the voters and call them morons, which is what the Republicans have been doing of late.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Despite MoviePass paying full freight for tickets, major theater chains have been wary about the service devaluing the cost for going to the movies.
    — Erik Hayden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
  • This is the kind of trash that has artificially devalued one of the most important positions in the game.
    — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 18 July 2023
  • But the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue their creative endeavors.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Both later apologized for the way their comments came across and said their intent wasn’t to devalue any worker.
    — Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 23 May 2021
  • Rents are staying high in part because landlords don’t want to devalue their buildings and many long-term leases have yet to expire.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Not to devalue the pregnancy, but sometimes the pregnancy is the most harmful thing to that family.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Another option is to devalue Iraq's currency, which has been pegged to the dollar for decades.
    — Samya Kullab, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Lestat projects his voice into Louis' head, chiding him for letting these men devalue him.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This year, the Argentine peso devalued 31% against the U.S. dollar.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The country is under pressure to devalue its currency for a second time this year.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
  • What’s profit-motivated cannot devalue, which means the fruit of our work has the potential to be protected in the future.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • How much will Waters’ comments taint and devalue those assets?
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Deficit spending was compounded by an inability to collect tax revenue, and he was forced to devalue the peso twice at the end of his term.
    — Alexander F. Remington, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • The higher rates devalued long-term bonds held by that bank and others, hurting their ability to raise cash when investors pulled deposits.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
  • The end of the trial comes 11 months after Floyd's death on a Minneapolis street set off widespread protests about the ways that police devalue and dismiss the lives of Black people.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The Cardinal and Bears would be left in a greatly depleted (and devalued) conference 3,000 miles from home.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The scene employs a distressingly silly use of garbage bags to address, brilliantly, the way Stefani sees Zola and how the world is primed to devalue her.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2021

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