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The cost of living is particularly pronounced in California where inflation, high interest rates and escalating rents are demoralizing the working and middle classes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

She told council members the conditions are demoralizing to staff and a turnoff to potential recruits coming for interviews.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024

“There’s a lot of things that are demoralizing when you don’t win. Bottom line, South Carolina played better.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2022

Yes, they are demoralizing, zapping all hope for the future, but their back stories—how did they come about?—are invariably fascinating.

From Slate • Jun. 19, 2021

They should not come burdened with debts, which are demoralizing in a thousand ways.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander