Example Sentences

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“At the same time we could point out the problems that existed in these films when there was denigrating representations of people of color.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2021

“Right out of the bat he was denigrating the medical traditions of Peru,” one student told The Post.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2021

A Starbucks outlet that opened in 2000 in Beijing's nearly 600-year-old Forbidden City was shuttered seven years later, after protestors said it was denigrating the historical site.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2012