Example Sentences

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We are deskilling and dumbing down on a demoralizing diet of digital slop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

We need to avoid deskilling and demoralising workers and destroying businesses that will not be reborn easily.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2020

The risk is that outsourcing emotional labor to robots and machines could lead to mass emotional deskilling on the part of people.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2016

As machines took over labor from humans and people increasingly found themselves confined to the same repetitive step, the process of deskilling began.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

The operations of these mills irrevocably changed the nature of work by deskilling tasks, breaking down the process of production to its most basic, elemental parts.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014