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Later in the interview, the “Taken” star remarked that he felt the stream of “Star Wars” content had cheapened the franchise.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Among the naysayers was fashion designer Coco Chanel, who thought Mr. Cardin had cheapened design with shameless overexposure.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2020

Larson, a professor at the University of California at Davis School of Law and an expert on treason, said the president had cheapened the word through overuse.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2019

Bush’s opponents—and some of his friends—thought that he had cheapened himself in the bare-knuckled grasp of his young campaign manager, Lee Atwater.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2018

She knew little of men, but instinctively she felt that in his sight she had cheapened herself and never could she bear to look at him again.

From The Major by Connor, Ralph