degeneration
Example Sentences
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In the United States, age-related macular degeneration is one of the most common causes of permanent vision loss in adults who are 60 and older.
From Science Daily
Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
To be in favor of reasonably examining policing’s proper place seems equated with wishing for Seattle’s degeneration into a nightmarish hellscape where bullets hail down on every street corner.
From Seattle Times
The researchers noted that even study participants who lost less weight still achieved “protection against structural degeneration of the knee.”
From Washington Post
“If there’s degeneration of a disk, a headstand can exacerbate that.”
From Washington Post
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