degenerate

Example Sentences

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A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times

Among other things, she has used mini-organs she developed to study how cells in the cervix degenerate and turn cancerous -- another region where different types of mucosal cells collide.

From Science Daily

Echoing the racist tropes he has deployed frequently against his legal adversaries, Trump has called Bragg a “thug” and a “degenerate psychopath,” urging his supporters to take action against the “danger to our country.”

From Seattle Times

People become disenchanted and in the fray, “The idea of freedom becomes more self-centered, more greedy. It degenerates into anarchy and winds up in a dictatorship. ... I’m afraid we are sleepwalking towards dictatorship.”

From Los Angeles Times

When they reduced the levels of the DEK gene, vulnerable neurons started to accumulate tau and to degenerate.

From Science Daily