Antonyms for chip awaychip 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

How to use chip away in a sentence?

1. Doug Berman:

   This case itself won't change things, but it's the first of many that starts to chip away at the idea that criminalization is the way to address problematic substance abuse, the courts haven't kept up with the science itself. It's time.

2. 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.

3. Bob Previdi:

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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