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

But the spirit of degeneracy had firmly gripped me.

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