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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cheapen .
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Examples
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If inflation and interest rates go up, you pay back your mortgage in cheapened dollars.
Mortgage Depreciation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I feared the kid might be high on bazuco, a kind of cheapened cocaine, and that he was taking a knife out.
Nikolas Kozloff: Colombia's Next President: A Renovation for the South American Left? 2010
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Today, the United States and some of its Western partners -- in particular, Britain and France, which have their own narrow interests in not having the strategic cachet of their small strategic arsenals "cheapened" by the emergence of more states (especially in the "developing" world) that have mastered the nuclear fuel cycle -- focus on Iran's work on uranium enrichment as apocalyptically dangerous.
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: Just Like Bushehr, Iran's Uranium Enrichment is No Threat 2010
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Today, the United States and some of its Western partners -- in particular, Britain and France, which have their own narrow interests in not having the strategic cachet of their small strategic arsenals "cheapened" by the emergence of more states (especially in the "developing" world) that have mastered the nuclear fuel cycle -- focus on Iran's work on uranium enrichment as apocalyptically dangerous.
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: Just Like Bushehr, Iran's Uranium Enrichment is No Threat 2010
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I agree...a poster like that is intriguing and catches the eye...it's not "cheapened" by looking like everything else.
Well Played, Poster: Audrey The Trainwreck Glenn Dunks 2010
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Today, the United States and some of its Western partners -- in particular, Britain and France, which have their own narrow interests in not having the strategic cachet of their small strategic arsenals "cheapened" by the emergence of more states (especially in the "developing" world) that have mastered the nuclear fuel cycle -- focus on Iran's work on uranium enrichment as apocalyptically dangerous.
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: Just Like Bushehr, Iran's Uranium Enrichment is No Threat 2010
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If you think Iron Man is "cheapened" when put next to The Dark Knight then that's your opinion, all I can do is disagree with it.
Sunday Discussion: Is the Comic Book Movie Genre in for a Change? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Teddy Roosevelt kind of cheapened the Peace Prize, IMO.
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He added that the ISP deals have "cheapened" the McAfee brand and potential customers are willing to pay less for the company's products than for those offered by competitors.
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So it's not only that they've kind of cheapened television; they have also made it a whole lot more interesting.
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