disvaluing

verb

present participle of disvalue
as in minimizing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disvaluing
  1. minimizing
  2. writing off
  3. disparaging
  4. decrying
  5. depreciating
  6. hating
  7. belittling
  8. deprecating
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  • Compensation and advancement below the partner level can’t just be about minimizing cost.
    — Tim Brackney, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Tsai, the Stanford professor, has conducted research on how emotion in American culture puts value on trying to always feel positive and minimizing negativity and sadness.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of minimizing
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  • Not writing off this year yet, but the window is '27-'30 for this group.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Going forward, Brock, who’s based in Los Angeles and plans to release three collections a year, isn’t writing off the idea of a runway show—maybe in the City of Light.
    — Laura Neilson, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of writing off
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  • The actress said Toback later made disparaging remarks about her appearance, including comments about her hips.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In Sugar Land, Texas, a 90-foot statue of the deity Hanuman, consecrated in 2024 at a temple complex, continues to draw disparaging comments, including one YouTube personality who recently urged its demolition.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of disparaging
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  • That followed mass demonstrations earlier this month, with students decrying run-down classrooms, missing teachers, and buildings that aren’t equipped for rising temperatures.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • In an interview on the Axios Show, Alex Thompson questioned Piker over his love of China, known for its heavy persecution of Uyghur Muslims, despite frequently decrying Israel for its own treatment of Muslims.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of decrying
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  • Technical fluency is the fastest-depreciating asset in your portfolio.
    — Cuong Nguyen Cao, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Accounting Statement 34 from the standards-setting nonprofit lays the foundation for capitalizing, reporting and depreciating capital assets.
    — Kathryn Blackman, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of depreciating
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  • The president has a long history of hating on Somalia and Somali immigrants to this country.
    — Miles Bryan, Vox, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage.
    — Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of hating
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  • In 2015, she was suspended for a week after a video surfaced of her yelling at and belittling a towing company employee.
    — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • People who post puerile, profane or belittling comments are protesters on a virtual street.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of belittling
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  • Skip Schumaker’s history with late-season runs The first-year Rangers manager is deprecating about his playing career as mostly a utility player, which lasted from 2005 to 2015 and covered tenures with the Cardinals, Dodgers and Reds.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Our task, in the year of the United States’ two-hundred-and-fiftieth birthday, is to deprovincialize the Revolution, without unduly deprecating its originality.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
Definition of deprecating
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