degradation
Example Sentences
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When dams, altered water flows, or habitat degradation disrupt these connections, populations can drop quickly.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026
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
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
In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing degradation
"Marigolds," Vocabulary from the short story
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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"Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves" Vocabulary from the informational text
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