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

In many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the neurons start degenerating at a very early stage -- sometimes years before other brain regions begin to falter.

From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 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

After this night's affair no one can ever say that you are degenerating; for your imagination, my dear man, was never so brilliant.

From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston