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How To Use downgrade In A Sentence

• He lambasted software companies for piling on marginal features in incessant upgrades that can downgrade user efficiency.
• Any downgrade in a sovereign credit rating will push up the interest that a country must pay on its debts. Times, Sunday Times
• Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
• The gossips say the group is being hit by declining advertising revenue and a drop in market share in its important US college market which could result in further profit downgrades once figures are issued.
• Greece's rating was downgraded to junk status last year owing to the risk of default. Times, Sunday Times
• You might even downgrade it to bar fare, since the only stalks most guys eat are served alongside hot wings or immersed in a Bloody Mary.
• With the recruitment process still running, the job specification for the role was suddenly downgraded two weeks ago to remove any responsibility for the senior England team. Times, Sunday Times
• The bonds of both eurozone countries suffered after the downgrades. Times, Sunday Times
• Jean-Claude Trichet hard line that the ECB collateral rules are graved in stone, therefore beware of downgrades in Greece, Spain, and Latvia. Lawrence G. McDonald: Weekly Market Wrap From Inside Wall Street
• On the one hand, there is the approach of enforced equalisation, meaning in practice that high standards, that have been achieved through hard work, have to be downgraded to a lower level so that all can become equal. ANC Daily News Briefing