degradation
Example Sentences
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However, the same processes have also intensified climate change, pollution, and environmental degradation.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
"With the MRIs, we also saw slower degradation of a marker of cartilage health in the intervention group, which was quite exciting."
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
The population had been falling for years; the words "inner city" were regarded as a mark of degradation.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
The documents are highly sensitive to light, and the lumens of the overhead lamps are kept as low as candlelight to avoid risking degradation.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
At first Lewis’s chemists were mystified by the sudden degradation in their experimental results, but they eventually traced the trouble to neutron interference.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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