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
Her old assurance had deserted her; the strangulated contralto was losing its magic power, she felt, in this degenerating England it had ruled so long.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
