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involution

[in-vuh-loo-shuhn] / ˌɪn vəˈlu ʃən /




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This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.

From Science Daily Dec. 29, 2025

Tackling involution at its root, many economists argue, would require a fundamental restructuring of the economic system that puts consumer spending in the driver’s seat, rather than leaning on investments and manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 19, 2025

“I thought by opening a stall I could escape the involution of looking for work,” one vendor wrote on Xiaohongshu.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2023

"If this can't be halted, the trends in place could lead to a progressive and unsustainable involution of the human capital of most of southern Italy."

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2023

In women the period of involution of the sexual apparatus forms a crisis which, in regard to neuralgias, is of great prognostic importance.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.




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