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

They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

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

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

The regents, however, although a degenerating class, had maintained until the very end a certain ideal of personal manners which had set a standard for all classes.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem