degenerating

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

If the adaptation of an animal to its environment is secured by "degenerating" or "developing" or by remaining stationary, it will do one of the three.

From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman