degenerating

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Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

“All of this has been degenerating for a long time,” Melgar said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

That level of organization and conservation of DNA suggests the Y chromosome isn’t degenerating into obsolescence, Jobling says.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

The Speaker, at Warwick, said that "the bicyclists of the day are debilitating and degenerating the human race by the way in which they stoop over their work."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various