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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
detract .
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Examples
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When you have people like Luskin on your side it kind of detracts from the seriousness of your arguments.
Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In another comment, GT wrote, "When you have people like Luskin on your side it kind of detracts from the seriousness of your arguments."
Liquidity Trap, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Again, that crush on her brother is plain wrong and detracts from the story for me, but overall she's a very likable character.
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None of this is detracts from the .338, or the Barnes TSX, or the shoulder shot.
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Again, that crush on her brother is plain wrong and detracts from the story for me, but overall she's a very likable character.
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So that employee detracts from the numerator on productivity, even if he or she is not factored into the denominator.
Meltzer on the Labor Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Obama held firm on the things most important to him, and saying otherwise is a lie that detracts from the power of your argument.
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We never learn any of this, but it never detracts from the story.
21 « August « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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I also think that the media scrummage detracts from the really nasty hate fuelled discrimination that really does need to be tackled.
Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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So that employee detracts from the numerator on productivity, even if he or she is not factored into the denominator.
Meltzer on the Labor Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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