Noun a downgrade in the company's stock prices a singing career on the downgradeVerb The restaurant was downgraded from three to two stars. She didn't intend to downgrade the importance of her colleague's work.
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After the initial downgrade of United Property & Casualty, the state Office of Insurance Regulation on Aug. 2 put the company into a new stopgap program aimed at making sure coverage would continue for homeowners. Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022 Chicago might hope Dragic can be some level of Ball insurance if his knee continues to be an issue, but the veteran point guard is such a different player and a significant downgrade in 3-point shooting and defense. Jason Patt, Forbes, 6 July 2022 That's a downgrade compared to the Studio Display and LG's 27-inch UltraFine 5K monitor, which claims 99 percent of DCI-P3 coverage. Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022 Moody’s has downgraded Coinbase’s (COIN) corporate debt and also placed its debt ratings for the crypto exchange under review for further downgrade. Nelson Wang, Fortune, 23 June 2022 The apparent downgrade across operating systems was noted by a Reddit user over the holiday weekend and confirmed in Ars' testing this morning. Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 6 July 2022 The downgrade comes as the war disrupts human activity, investment and trade, demand fades and governments withdraw fiscal and monetary policy support, the World Bank said. Yuka Hayashi, WSJ, 7 June 2022 In Europe, which relies heavily on Russia to meet its energy needs, growth is now expected to slow to 2.8% in 2022, a downgrade of 1.1 percentage points versus January. Julia Horowitz, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022 This was the lowest reading since September 2011 when recession fears were also growing after the downgrade of US debt. Tom Aspray, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
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That meant malicious actors could force Zoom to downgrade to a buggier, less-secure version or even pass it an entirely different package that could give them root access to the system. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2022 Russia's war led the International Monetary Fund last month to downgrade its outlook for the global economy for the fourth time in under a year. David Mchugh, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022 That meant malicious actors could use it to downgrade Zoom for better exploit access or even to gain root access to the system. Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 18 Aug. 2022 The consequence of all this intellectual horse-trading, Mr. Mauceri reasons, was to downgrade or set aside composers whose music audiences liked. Barton Swaim, WSJ, 16 June 2022 Money managers quickly moved to downgrade their currency outlook for emerging markets.Fortune, 1 May 2022 The brothers said going elsewhere would have required them to shave off a third of their budget and downgrade the action of the film.New York Times, 17 July 2022 Attendees can access the event with either in-person or virtual tickets depending on their preferences, and this format reduces outright cancellations as people can upgrade from virtual to in-person or downgrade as the case may be. Yec, Forbes, 29 June 2022 Any obvious defects, such as cracked or rotting material, can downgrade the aesthetic and quickly turn away potential home buyers. Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2022 See More