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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deskill .
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Examples
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is that there *are*, at least in my Home Province, some measurable ways in which students have been to appropriate a term deskilled in certain areas.
Make Me Crazy Bardiac 2007
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Men's involvement in pregnancy can make them 'deskilled' at parenting
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Men's involvement in pregnancy can make them 'deskilled' at parenting
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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I felt completely deskilled instead of the reasonably competent person I had been.
Leo Averbach: Divorce Can Transform You Leo Averbach 2011
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I felt completely deskilled instead of the reasonably competent person I had been.
Leo Averbach: Divorce Can Transform You Leo Averbach 2011
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Once deskilled, many of those production jobs will likely go overseas as so many other jobs have before.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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Once deskilled, many of those production jobs will likely go overseas as so many other jobs have before.
Nathan Newman: How the Googlization of Television Will Destroy High Wage, Union Hollywood Nathan Newman 2012
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It's all wrong, how taking your eye off the technology ball for a little while can leave you careering towards a hopelessly deskilled old age; I hope that improvements in interface design mean that this stops happening in the future but I don't bank on it.
Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring 2010
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In this instance, there is an ongoing transformation among faculty in which they become deskilled as intellectuals, reduced to the status of academic entrepreneurs and functioning as unquestioning employees of the military-industrial-academic complex.
Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Under an Obama Regime 2008
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We teachers are increasingly deskilled and hammered into interchangeable cogs in a bureaucracy, pressured to reduce teaching to a set of manageable and easily superviseable tasks, and to sum it up on the basis of a single simple-minded metric, to strip it of any moral purpose or intellectual engagement or creative action whatsoever.
A Single Spark 2006
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