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downgraded

verb

past tense of downgrade

as in demoted

to bring to a lower grade or rank increased automation resulted in many jobs in the factory being downgraded

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to diminish the price or value of the company's filing for Chapter 11 downgraded the stock to the point where it was selling for pennies a share

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Recent Examples of downgraded The bank downgraded both the apparel giant and Foot Locker owner to hold from buy. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026 Evacuation orders and warnings were downgraded or lifted in Riverside County on Tuesday evening as crews made progress battling the 60-acre Wood fire burning in brush west of Perris. — Iris Kwok aug. 25, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026 In Hawaii, residents won a bit of a reprieve as a weakening Moke, downgraded from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, passed some 300 miles to the south. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 After moving away from the islands, Lala was downgraded and remained a strong tropical storm on Sunday far out in the Central Pacific. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Twenty-two wide moats were downgraded, twenty to narrow and two to none, concentrated in enterprise software, IT services and payroll, hitting names like Workday, Adobe, Salesforce and ADP. — Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The couple’s Netflix partnership was downgraded to a first-look deal one year ago. — Mariel Turner, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026 In 2025, Moody’s downgraded US debt, stripping the United States of its last perfect credit rating. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026 The state's drought status may be downgraded to an advisory level in September if rainfall continues. — Alex Kuffner, The Providence Journal, 19 Aug. 2026

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An officer with the Porter County Sheriff’s Department who misused the county’s license plate reader system has been demoted, suspended without pay and faced other disciplinary measures, according to a release from Sheriff Jeffery Balon.

— Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Ramirez was surprised and very upset when the team demoted him to Jacksonville in May, according to a team source.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

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After a couple of spoonfuls, the dinner conversation volume had lowered considerably.

— Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Bessent then announced a series of Treasury bond buybacks, which lowered elevated yields and eased financial conditions across the wider economy.

— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026

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