Example Sentences

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Nobody is too big to be fired, if their behaviour has compromised the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

“She has compromised on a lot of issues that did not come easily for her,” says Duncan Wood, CEO of Hurst International Consulting.

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

“The artifice and corruption of the movies has compromised the plain intensity of war,” Thomson writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

Now, the unraveling of the two high-profile cases has compromised the legitimacy of those efforts.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

The long journey has compromised the Collective’s physical state.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera