How to Use devaluation in a Sentence

devaluation

noun
  • Wealthy Brits who lived through the pound devaluation in 1992 feel the same way.
    Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • China is said to be studying yuan devaluation as a tool in the U.S. trade spat.
    Christine Harvey, Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • This began to shift in 2013, after the devaluation of the yen made houses cheap.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 8 May 2021
  • But the centuries-long devaluation of frames can make this humble goal a Sisyphean task.
    Eleanor Cummins, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020
  • That sounds about right, since the fund has a record of preferring devaluation to sound money.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2018
  • That means that for 40 years, Americans have not had to worry much about the price of goods and services changing from year to year or the devaluation of the U.S. Dollar.
    Eric Brotman, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • At the same time, there are growing concerns that the Lebanese currency, the lira, is at risk of devaluation.
    Jane Ferguson, The New Yorker, 12 July 2019
  • And there’s a devaluation of not just creative work, but work everywhere and that needs to be addressed.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • To begin with, homes will see a 13 percent devaluation and maybe more.
    Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The debates over the CFA franc often begin with the question of exchange rates and devaluation.
    Landry Signé, Quartz Africa, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Frequent flier and credit-card blogs are filled with posts from consumers angry about the devaluation of the SPG Amex card, which costs $95 a year.
    Scott McCartney, WSJ, 11 July 2018
  • Chinese officials have said Beijing won’t use yuan devaluation as a way to hit back at the U.S. on trade.
    Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 3 July 2018
  • Mr Fernández warned in the final days of the campaign that devaluation of the peso was coming.
    The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Many Argentines still blame the IMF for permissive and heavy lending that led to devaluation of the peso and the debt default.
    Luis Andres Henao, Fox News, 11 May 2018
  • The question, however, is whether their support of him ends up playing a tacit role in the overall devaluation of the far right.
    Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • In the summer of 1997, a massive crisis was triggered in the region by the devaluation of Thailand’s currency, the baht.
    Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Inflation is at a five-year high and the Egyptian pound has lost nearly half of its value in a series of devaluations since March 2022.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Her devaluation as a human, based on the color of her skin in the United States still continues today in 2020.
    Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
  • Medicines haven’t gone into shortages so far, but the devaluation of the ruble has driven up prices, Mr. Rasshchupkin said.
    Denise Roland, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
  • But the devaluation of women is still culturally based and it's built into our systems in the same way.
    Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At the root of this is what bell hooks refers to as the devaluation of Black womanhood, which began during slavery and still exists today.
    Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • More than half of working Turks earn around the minimum wage, which is worth less than $300 a month because of the Turkish lira’s vast devaluation against the dollar.
    Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This clay-pigeon approach to inquiry struck her as a devaluation of all that criticism—and art—can do.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The goal has transitioned from fixing the devaluation to merely slowing the bleed.
    Prem Ramkumar, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • That models’ private lives have been recast as a kind of labor contributes to the devaluation of their work.
    Isabel Cristo, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2019
  • In theory, the Bank of Japan could stanch the yen’s devaluation by raising interest rates.
    New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • There's the cratered market around NFTs, the rapid devaluation and erratic behavior of many of the currencies.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The specter of capital flight started to emerge late last year, following the central bank’s surprise devaluation of the yuan in August 2015.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • Normally, this would have caused a significant devaluation of the ruble because when people buy foreign currency, the ruble plunges.
    Konstantin Sonin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Cryptocurrency has gained traction in Nigeria as a hedge against inflation and currency devaluation.
    Tonya Evans, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024

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