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Unlike energy, agriculture and industrial metals, investors buy gold largely to hedge the possibility that central banks will cheapen their currencies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 22, 2012

It's probably not a good idea to try to duplicate the best moment of one's life 40 times, if only because it will cheapen the truly good times.

From Time Magazine Archive

They also say a lowered wage-scale will cheapen manufactured goods, unearth new markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

She puts hand on hip when flirting and rebukes kisses by saying they will "cheapen" her.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it may safely be assumed that it will cheapen, as petroleum has done, by a development of the territory in which it is known to exist in enormous quantities.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various