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

Finally, they showed that after actually damaging olfactory neurons, the ensheathing glia could not remove the degenerating axons in the flies on the high sugar diet because their Draper levels did not increase.

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2023

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

There came a period when the intellect, instead of pursuing its rise, was, in reality, degenerating into the darkness of superstition.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)