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- verb Present participle of
devaluate .
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Examples
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The financial reform bill further empowers the very people who were the key factor in devaluating our currency, causing the Great Depression and causing this Depression (which has yet to be named).
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It is about trivializing life and devaluating wisdom.
Misha Lyuve: Inspirational Quotes: Terms of Use (OR Alternatives to Lack of Imagination) Misha Lyuve 2011
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The American two-party system is fracturing, as both sides are struggling with immense war debt, a crippled manufacturing base, and a Federal Reserve that is devaluating the currency in order to prop up financial institutions that gambled trillions and lost; their bets became our losses as they were "covered by the house".
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QUEST: Well, yes, because not only is there not the growth and no consuming economies, or other exporting and importing countries, you have a devaluating dollar.
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And subprime mortgages are the bulk of the bad debt that's collapsing Wall Street, and taking a lot of perfectly good assets and companies down with it, particularly by devaluating the entire housing market.
Obama Dramatically Ramping Up Overall Ad Spending; Now Outgunning McCain 2009
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Not only in Bodies (that never stopped Flag Imperialism) but in devaluating Dollars.
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“A flawed process can make the poor poorer by further devaluating their view of themselves and what they have.”
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As the Fed cuts interest rates, it is devaluating the dollar.
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Fool's Gold yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Fool\'s Gold'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: As Bernanke prints valueless money, devaluating the dollar more every month, the economy spirals into both hyperinflation and depression.
Fool's Gold 2008
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And while the Fed may bail out still more investment houses (thus further devaluating the dollar) they will not bail you out.
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