degradation

Example Sentences

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But after "25 years of degradation of the country's institutional, productive, and social fabric", he says, the conditions for that are now far less favourable.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

And without that, do you forecast some kind of degradation of Fox’s role in the decades to come?

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2026

Anxieties about overconsumption and environmental degradation lie beneath the playfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

Domestic debt-related financial stress, coupled with the degradation of so many cross-border economic relationships, can have serious economic, political, and security consequences.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

I leave a place of degradation and squalor, the likes of which I will never experience again.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline