Sample Sentences for
undermine
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    In doing so, they hoped to embarrass America and undermine American soldiers' faith in their government.  (source)
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    When McCandless came into his world, however, the boy undermined the old man's meticulously constructed defenses.  (source)
    undermined = weakened
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    Nothing like the sloppy Italians who were constantly trying to undermine us.†  (source)
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    but his post-traumatic stress disorder continued to undermine his ability to manage his behavior.†  (source)
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    She saw now that she had undermined his authority in all eyes by flouting his orders.†  (source)
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    I declined to suggest that clients examine the underside of the piece, as Hobie himself— eager to educate, at the price of fatally undermining his own interests was only too quick to do.†  (source)
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    Fear undermines logic and opens up all sorts of opportunities for people like me.†  (source)
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    There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying organizations, like the German tugendbund and Italian Carbonarism; but here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of throwing off shoots.†  (source)
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    Some talk about trying to undermine others without getting caught.†  (source)
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    Broad smiles and hollow laughter were undermined by trembling legs and shaking hands.†  (source)
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    Her father had a way of undermining his sister's lectures on the innate superiority of any given Finch: he always told his daughter the rest of it, quietly and solemnly, but Jean Louise sometimes thought she detected an unmistakably profane glint in Atticus Finch's eyes, or was it merely the light hitting his glasses?†  (source)
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    To get their own bread they must overdose the king's lieges; and that's a bad sort of treason, Mr. Mawmsey—undermines the constitution in a fatal way.†  (source)
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    He became convinced we were spying on him, trying to undermine him.†  (source)
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