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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of traduce.

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  • Sooner or later, and usually sooner, The EU in turn utterly traduces what ever the UK was promised in the latest such squalid deal.

    Archive 2009-08-30 2009

  • Sooner or later, and usually sooner, The EU in turn utterly traduces what ever the UK was promised in the latest such squalid deal.

    To Nobody's Surprise 2009

  • Though he represents Vasco da Gama's explorations as episodes in the history of religion, he traduces theology and church history.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • (StandWithUs has now published accounts by named IDF soldiers who present a very different picture from Breaking the Silence which they feel traduces the army in which they serve).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • (StandWithUs has now published accounts by named IDF soldiers who present a very different picture from Breaking the Silence which they feel traduces the army in which they serve).

    Where is all this heading? 2009

  • However, in practice, this trusts have not been so successful since the yearly changes that suffer the ITL and the Federal Tax Code (just to mention some laws of the Mexican Taxation System) continuity to some fiscal figures and this traduces in a lack of certainty to the investors.

    The View From Mexico City - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • Genuine socialism, as contrasted with consciously distorted and effectively traduces versions which have been peddled to us by the corporate think tanks such as the Hoover Institute and the Heritage Foundation, and other similarly financed corporate mind-setters, represents a new, refreshing, different concept of social inetraction and responsible industrial self government.

    Genuine Socialism vs. Corporate Propaganda 2008

  • “A photograph is always like and unlike, Frank,” he replied; “the sun too, when used mechanically, is merely a reporter, and traduces instead of reproducing you.”

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • The Affirming Catholicism document crudely caricatures the position we have carefully set out, traduces the real legal and historical position, understands ‘the Church’ in a very narrow sense and is disturbing in its un-Anglican and intolerant zeal to stifle public expressions of dissent and doubt.

    FiFUK: Response to Affirming Catholicism 2007

  • The next time someone traduces you I doubt you'll consider it a contribution to the nation's culture.

    Will sensitivity about racism turn racism into a taboo subject? Ann Althouse 2007

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