How to Use devalue in a Sentence

devalue

verb
Definition of devaluenext
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  • 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.
  • Ismail declined to comment when asked if the government will devalue the currency further.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Where else in the world are black women’s bodies, even when dedicated to the protection of a nation, so degraded or devalued?
    — David Sheen, The Root, 19 Feb. 2018
  • This was especially true for Moose, because homers are being devalued, there weren't a lot of spenders in need of third basemen, and those who did took different routes.
    — Samuel Mellinger, kansascity, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Expertise, personal integrity and public service have all been debased and devalued by the culture.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2018
  • For the season finale at nationals, Glo designs a group number about — wait for it — the fentanyl crisis and twists that macabre concept to further devalue her young dancers.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Thompson said such a facility would be substantially devalued.
    — James Ewinger, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Silas believes rebounding has been slowly devalued in this NBA era, when big men increasingly play along the perimeter.
    — Rick Bonnell, charlotteobserver, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Many cryptocurrencies are also created to have a finite number of coins, so they can’t be devalued, producing runaway inflation.
    — Kotryna Zukauskaite, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The Swiss, for their part, have tried to devalue the franc on and off for several years.
    — Brian Blackstone, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • His stock was devalued to the point the 10th draft pick a year ago cost the Dolphins the 62nd and NFL pennies for his contract this draft.
    — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 6 June 2019
  • This is not a case of devaluing the product by giving it away.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Many of those spoke out and felt dismissed or devalued.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And more to the point — what drove those comedians to devalue themselves in the first place?
    — J Wortham, New York Times, 12 May 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
  • 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
  • TrackMan rewards the lazy catcher, the bad receiver, and devalues the good receivers, and that’s a big part of the game.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
  • Don’t sell yourself short; know your worth and refuse to let anyone devalue you.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • To let Garrett off with a slap on the wrist would devalue their discipline.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Since the Trump era, the currency has devalued by 20% because of inflation in the last five years.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • 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
  • No other major sport devalues 90 percent of its season the way the NBA does.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2018
  • But this fact in no way devalues her character or the series.
    — Anne T. Donahue, Marie Claire, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Some say that the position has been devalued, but there are some valuable three-down linebackers in this class.
    — SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • If someone else is leading the charge in devaluing your contributions, though, a serious conversation with them might be necessary.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024

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