Example Sentences

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“Chill on the AI it cheapens the brand,” one wrote on Instagram.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

He’s incapable of not playing all out, believing it cheapens the game and himself.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

To make his case, Paul argues that consumers benefit from a popular business tactic in Big Tech called "vertical integration," where a company streamlines and cheapens its operations by owning multiple stages of production.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2022

Hamaguchi has plotted this story with great precision and ingenuity, and that precision miraculously deepens, rather than cheapens, the lost history that passes between these two women.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021

It cheapens everything, doesn’t it, if this man thinks we’re only giving him everything we have on us because we may not have any use for it ten minutes from now.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera