Example Sentences

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Indigenous tribes whose ancestral home includes Nevada’s high desert have derided “City,” which now includes a land acknowledgment on its website.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

Since as early as the 19th century, critics have derided people who choose not to eat meat as "odd" or even "half-crazed."

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2024

Those who object to the posters have derided them as wartime propaganda.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023

“There is a difference between being open to varying viewpoints on a matter and knowingly spreading false information which some 270 medical professionals have derided as not only false but dangerous,” Nash said Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Galton may have derided the “microscope” of experimental geneticists, but the tool was far more powerful than Galton had presumed, for it could penetrate the outer shell of heredity into the mechanism itself.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee