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as in to violate
to fail to keep
a law that traduces one of our most cherished rights: the right to privacy
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as in to libel
to make untrue and harmful statements about
my opponent in this campaign may villainously traduce me, but I will not stoop to his level
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Recent Examples of traduce
In roundtable talks, their full humanity emerged: their fatigue at fighting gangsters to a draw and their guilt for how that fight traduced them.
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Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2025
Those serenely appraising eyes refuse to be traduced by any fiction.
—Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
Her infatuation traduces the complexities of interracial, interspecies, and cross-cultural attraction.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 May 2023
And the academic establishment traduced it, mocked it, minimized it.
—Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Mar. 2023
Its founding principles and its 1968 charter are of a bygone era, and they have been violated and traduced by the Palestinians’ own official practice.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
In Philip’s case, the myth was the good Jewish boy traduced by inner anarchy.
—Benjamin Taylor, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2020
Authors and illustrators are being flamed online and having their reputations traduced and their careers threatened for transgressing the capricious new standards of ideological purity.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
The site functions first as a watchdog to the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a profane populist who not only traduces norms but also urges the assassination of Filipino citizens in the name of combatting drugs.
—Karl Vick, Time, 12 Dec. 2019
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In October 2025, Beckerink pleaded no contest to domestic violence charges in connection to two incidents at Tracey's home in New Buffalo, Michigan, as well as one count of contempt for violating his bond, and was sentenced to 93 days in jail.—
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The lawsuit argues the freeze violated federal law, including the Administrative Procedure Act and constitutional limits on executive power and how Congress appropriates funds.—
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In 2022, Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, who presided over both trials, decided The Times was not liable for defamation while jurors were deliberating, that the error amounted to unfortunate editorializing but not libel.—
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As a new, inexpensive Chevrolet appeared in 1927 and The Dearborn Independent was sued for libeling a number of Jewish businessmen, Ford threw in the towel and apologized.—
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Even one of the greatest ever to play this game, Joe Root, could not work out how to break free of the 36-year-old’s shackles here, failing to score a single run off him for 23 balls in a row before finally yielding to the python-like grip when missing one that homed in on his pads.—
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The Brisbane Stadium is expected to break ground this year, with a target completion date of 2031.—
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Hadid appears beat up with a gash on her arm, dirt on her face, and smeared black eye makeup.—
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That would hardly seem out of place, especially given that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem smeared Good as a domestic terrorist.—
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“Traduce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traduce. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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