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Six example sentences with discredit, each labelled with its topic.
Once the forged letters surfaced, the general's memoir sank into discredit and vanished from every university reading list.
History
Years of missed delivery dates brought the supplier such discredit that buyers stopped returning calls from its sales team.
Business
The prize was withdrawn and the photographer left in discredit once the sky in the winning image proved borrowed.
Photography
The cold fusion claim fell into discredit within months, once other labs failed to reproduce the excess heat.
Science
The party remained in discredit for a decade after the scandal, losing seats even in its safest districts.
Politics
The rating agency fell into discredit after grading the worst bonds as safe, and clients demanded refunds.
Finance
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