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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Does your boss constantly belittle your contribution to the department?
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Good teachers never belittle their students.
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She has a way of speaking to employees that belittles them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods.
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City College boosters made a point of belittling the influence of Jeffries' personal claque.
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The diva badgers and belittles her Juilliard students, all in the name of perfection.
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This is not to belittle deliberate training, for without wood there can be no flame.
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This is not to belittle the importance of his role.
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When I was a teen-ager, a group of friends and I made a nasty little sport out of belittling one another.