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Second and more befuddling, if you have lost substantial weight, “Biggest Loser” style, exercise likely will be both ally and underminer in your efforts to keep those pounds at bay.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

Pearl is the active underminer of her own agency, the high priestess at her own sacrifice, an icon of maternity at once selfless and monstrous.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2020

Fox stressed that he was outraged, not at Darroch, but at the unknown leaker, whom he called an “unpatriotic” underminer of the relationship between the United States and Britain.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2019

Assange, who is praised in some circles for exposing government secrets and castigated by others as an underminer of some nations' security, offered Damore a job.

From Reuters • Aug. 8, 2017

What Page 207 you can do to avert depression,, that cruel underminer of every faculty that makes life worth sustaining, I beseech you to call forth.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny