Example Sentences

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"Our work suggests that we are compromising plant defenses through our breeding processes."

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2024

The Royal College of Nursing wants a 19% pay rise and says below-inflation increases are compromising care by making it hard to attract and retain nurses.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2022

From having to align myself with institutions that I feel are compromising my values.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2022

These industry practices are compromising hard-won, lifesaving reductions in youth vaping and other tobacco use.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

Ministers play high stakes," writes Mirabeau, on the 5th of July; "they are compromising the king, for in menacing Paris and the Assembly they are menacing France.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various