Question

Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.

Accepted Answer

(transitivehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive) To criticizehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairlyhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unfairly.

Sentence	Whatever the company says, the media is going to run them down.
Definition	( transitive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#transitive ) To criticize https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unfairly .

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