degenerating

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 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

“The idea that the Y is still degenerating and destined to disappear is really scotched by this.”

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