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degradation

[deg-ruh-dey-shuhn] / ˌdɛg rəˈdeɪ ʃən /


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The Pentagon has previously said the reduced drills would cause "no degradation to US training objectives".

From Barron's Aug. 21, 2026

The organisms were microscopic, lacked protective hard tissues, and have been exposed to billions of years of geological degradation.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 2026

They cite a lack of research, that nearly no other countries have approved use of these products, and their concerns about how the peptides are made, including the degradation and concentration of active ingredients.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times Jul. 19, 2021

She simply lets the degradations of Ivy, Ruby and Wren pile up until the nature of the crisis is inescapable.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2020

The Powell case made headlines not long after Anita Hill had testified in the Senate about the degradations she’d suffered in the workplace.

From Slate Jan. 12, 2020

The boy keeps thinking of King’s remarks about “the degradations of Jim Crow and the need to transform that degradation into action.”

From Washington Post Jul. 9, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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