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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Javits deprecated the violence that had occurred during the demonstrations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dealers have felt a need to deprecate their own firms' values, to disassociate themselves from them.
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He shrugged his shoulders and smiled as if deprecating his lack of education.
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L.G. rather deprecated that saying he was not in love with it.
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Surely Mr Stewart doesn't deprecate the value of children's television?