How to Use devalue in a Sentence

devalue

verb
  • 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.
  • Not just deskilling, but devaluing too?
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2025
  • At the time, running backs were devalued across the league.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
  • This is not a case of devaluing the product by giving it away.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • At the same time, wins that suddenly don’t look so good get devalued.
    — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t sell yourself short; know your worth and refuse to let anyone devalue you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • Finding the same class elsewhere for free devalues the site.
    — Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But this fact in no way devalues her character or the series.
    — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2018
  • And if everyone can slam homers, the home run itself is devalued.
    — The Tylt, OregonLive.com, 3 July 2017
  • Our sense is that Memphis would not devalue the revenue shares.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 20 June 2025
  • Even if the fastball is being devalued across baseball, that’s a good sign.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The shocks have forced some nations to devalue sharply, others may soon follow.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The Swiss, for their part, have tried to devalue the franc on and off for several years.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The centerpiece of the weekend has been devalued over time.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
  • To call it something else is a lie intended to devalue our labor.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
  • To let Garrett off with a slap on the wrist would devalue their discipline.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • And more to the point — what drove those comedians to devalue themselves in the first place?
    — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • They were being demeaned for that, or devalued for that in this critical time.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Some say that the position has been devalued, but there are some valuable three-down linebackers in this class.
    — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The trade charts show somewhat even value, but that’s because future picks are devalued.
    — Colton Pouncy, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Yet over time, the airlines have the power to devalue such currency.
    — Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The Black dandy flippantly devalues the bourgeoisie—not with talk, but with tact and taste.
    — Akilah Sailers, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
  • New systems always seem, at first, to devalue craft, shift power, and wreck cultures and scenes.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Just like his neglectful father did, the scribe devalues his wife and child to chase someone else’s idea of success.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
  • All the extra sh*t that comes with it, that means that someone is trying to devalue you or finesse you out of something.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 27 Dec. 2024
  • But Nissan walked away in March, devaluing Fisker's stock price even further in the process.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2024
  • Effort was the old currency, and AI just devalued it.
    — Margareta Petrovic, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

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