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degradation

[deg-ruh-dey-shuhn] / ˌdɛg rəˈdeɪ ʃən /


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They cite a lack of research, that nearly no other countries have approved use of these products, and their concerns about how the peptides are made, including the degradation and concentration of active ingredients.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Keeping the bacteria in spore form protected them until the team was ready to begin the degradation process.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

The group said the oil refinery, which is expected to take about 30 months to build, will lead to "habitat destruction, marine degradation, oil spill risk and dangerous air pollution".

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Meanwhile the team's plan to aid the natterjack toad is to try and figure out how to best reverse the degradation of Cumbria's sand dunes.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

He did not understand our civilization, and knew no better than to try to be too decent for the degradation of jealousy.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

We, as humans, are susceptible to an idea from ecology called shifting baseline syndrome, in which we too easily mentally adapt to degradations in our environment because we don’t remember how things used to be.

From Slate Mar. 24, 2024

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2021

She simply lets the degradations of Ivy, Ruby and Wren pile up until the nature of the crisis is inescapable.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2020

The boy keeps thinking of King’s remarks about “the degradations of Jim Crow and the need to transform that degradation into action.”

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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