Synonyms for chip away at
chip away at

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1. chip away, chip away atverb

   remove or withdraw gradually: "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life"

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   chip away

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1. Justice Thomas:

   You can cavalierly talk about packing or stacking the court. You can cavalierly talk about doing this or doing that. At some point the institution is going to be compromised, by doing this, you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if they're going to have civil society.

2. Jennifer Pizer:

   [W]e are witness yet again to the unrelenting anti-LGBTQ crusade being waged by self-described Christian fundamentalist legal groups aiming to chip away at the hard-won gains of LGBTQ people by carving out swaths of territory where discrimination can flourish, the constitutional protections for religious freedom and free speech were never intended as weapons of discrimination for those doing business with the general public.

3. Christopher Rufo:

   I think any successful public pressure campaign works because it changes public perception, as you chip away at their reputation, they can make a course correction and say, ‘We need to drop this stuff, it’s actually hurting our company.’.

4. Bob Previdi:

   I don't see where this ends. I see this as continuing to chip away at the foundation of our school system.

5. Attorney General Xavier Becerra:

   Make no mistake, this attack on California is just one more attempt to chip away at reproductive rights and access to abortion.