were undermining
- past progressive of undermine.
Example Sentences
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Pulte, who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, told the president he had identified leakers who were undermining the administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
The commission's chief executive David Holdsworth said some people were undermining charities' "potential for good" in an opinion piece for the Sunday Telegraph.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
His last years with the agency were unhappy, however, as he came to feel that some of his colleagues were undermining him.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022
Bingqin Li, a professor of social policy and governance at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, said China's strict lockdowns were undermining faith in the government.
From Reuters ● Apr. 29, 2022
Some workmen were undermining a house to pull it down for rebuilding, when, without warning, the front wall inclined slowly outwards for its fall, the nurse and child passing beneath it at the same moment.
From A Group of Noble Dames by Hardy, Thomas
