verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After the merger, many reporters were reassigned or downgraded.
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Economic advisers in Washington have been discussing whether to downgrade foreign loans.
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The professor claims that the government is deliberately downgrading scientific research.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Does this mean that history is to be downgraded?
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For them community service may be downgraded as work for lesser scholars or as something that everyone already accepts.
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I get the impression that opposition teams have unconsciously downgraded Leeds because of the last twelve months and are caught off guard.