involution

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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

In anthropology, involution is used to describe a kind of change without progress.

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

This disease, popularly known as the “stretches,” is erroneously attributed to an involution of the part of the intestine within another; it being, in reality, a species of flatulent colic, induced by costiveness.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert