degradation

Example Sentences

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And without that, do you forecast some kind of degradation of Fox’s role in the decades to come?

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

Anxieties about overconsumption and environmental degradation lie beneath the playfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Domestic debt-related financial stress, coupled with the degradation of so many cross-border economic relationships, can have serious economic, political, and security consequences.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

"Numbers have plummeted due to a myriad of different factors including over-abstraction, habitat degradation, pollution, impacts on redds, in-stream barriers, climate change, and pressures associated within the marine environment."

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

In my mind’s eye I saw reduced to soot all those wonderful books, which had revealed to me other ways of living, which had sustained me in a world of degradation.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane