Synonyms for chip away
chip away

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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"

   Synonyms:
   chip away at

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1. New York:

   I struggle with this because I don't want little girls watching or anything like that to lower their sights or anything in that direction. But for me, I feel that if that was in the scope of my ambition, it would chip away at my courage today, i think what happens a lot in politics is that people are so motivated to run for certain higher office that they compromise in fighting for people today. And the idea is that if you can be as clean of a slate or as blank of a slate, that it makes it easier for you to run for higher office later on.

2. Robert Jenkins:

   The single greatest risk to financial stability remains excessive leverage in the banking system, some regulators continue to chip away at leverage. The banking lobby is chipping away at the chipping away, and the banking lobby is winning.

3. The Atlantic:

   Despite some shifting numbers, neither our vaccines nor our immune systems are failing us, or even coming close. Vaccine effectiveness isn’t a monolith, and neither is immunity. Staying safe from a virus depends on host and pathogen alike; a change in either can chip away at the barriers that separate the two without obliterating them, which is exactly what we’re seeing now.

4. 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.

5. Meredith Stoddard:

   Make sure you have transparency, chip away at it. Use the resources available. Build a strong support network. It is less overwhelming.