degrading
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- degradingly adverb
- degradingness noun
- nondegrading adjective
- undegrading adjective
Etymology
Origin of degrading
Example Sentences
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Reducing head count growth without visibly degrading service quality has become a strategic priority.
From Barron's
However she said many unknowns remain, with much depending "on how ByteDance tweaks the weaker links - such as data separation, update frequency, and oversight mechanisms - without degrading performance".
From BBC
The judgement said the trust's policy had an "admirable and noble purpose", but it had the effect of "violating the dignity" of the nurses and of "creating for them a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment".
From BBC
It has cut back on the amount of hardware needed to control large numbers of qubits, the basic units of information in a quantum computer, without degrading fidelity.
From Barron's
Kendall said the situation was "absolutely appalling", adding "we cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these degrading images."
From BBC
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