Example Sentences

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PBS SoCal does not value its own programs by vitiating the viewer’s experience.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2022

But a large Jeff Koons piece is droning nearby, vitiating thought with its generic monotone of irony.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2015

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2013

Pakistan summoned Afghanistan's chargé d'affaires on Thursday to protest "an unprovoked firing incident" that is "vitiating the friendly relations and creating avoidable tension between the two brotherly countries," the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2013

Carbonic acid, the vitiating product of combustion, does not, however, ordinarily deteriorate the atmosphere of the room, but, mingling with the smoke, escapes through the stove-pipe or chimney.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira