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verb

vitiate

to spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with vitiate, each labelled with its topic.

  • A single coerced signature can vitiate the entire contract, leaving both parties exactly where they started.

    Law

  • Dust on the sensor vitiates every frame from the shoot, and the retoucher spends hours cloning out gray specks.

    Photography

  • Boiling the sauce too hard vitiates the delicate herbs, turning a bright dressing into something flat and grassy.

    Cooking

  • A hidden assumption can vitiate an otherwise elegant argument, and the seminar spent an hour hunting for it.

    Philosophy

  • A single bad year of data can vitiate the whole forecast, so the bank now checks every series by hand.

    Economics

  • One flaky test can vitiate an entire test suite, since engineers stop trusting a red result that fails at random.

    Technology

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