degradation
Example Sentences
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"If this was true, they wouldn't survive fossilization except under very special circumstances where rapid fossilization outcompeted degradation."
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
Anxieties about overconsumption and environmental degradation lie beneath the playfulness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026
Nonetheless, the degradation of the Islamic Republic as a military and nuclear power has been enormous and is likely irreversible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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
The musicians wink and smile at each other as they play, and I see then that they are the secret emissaries of a worldwide lower-class conspiracy to snatch joy out of degradation and filth.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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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