are detracting
- present progressive of detract.
Example Sentences
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Worries over the impact of higher interest rates aimed at vanquishing high inflation are detracting from relatively strong earnings reports for many companies.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
"I think you are detracting from your own virtues in order to flatter his," said Mabel, smiling, but rejoicing inwardly over the happy selection she had made in the college catalogue.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
Whilst, however, we consider it our duty to say thus much, let it not be supposed that we are detracting from the merits of the extracts contained in that article of the Quarterly.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
