degeneracy
Example Sentences
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Viewers considered it, as one art historian would write later, either “a symbol of the ultimate in moral degeneracy or as a mad and irresponsible joke.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Las Vegas took your money with gracious respect for your degeneracy, gouging you sweetly and slowly.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
It would be unfair to place the sole blame for the degeneracy of civil norms on one segment of the public.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024
When the scientists saw the lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy, accompanied by the vanishing net magnetisation, they knew they were looking at an altermagnet.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
Poetry was a symptom of weakness, of degeneracy and decay.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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