degrade

Example Sentences

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The targeting clearly shows a strategy to degrade the regime’s apparatus of repression, but risks harming the very prisoners it is intended to empower, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

However, McBeth notes that continued operations would continue to degrade Iran’s command and control structure.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

‘You can’t degrade the travel experience for decades and then scold people for dressing to endure the experience.’

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026

Because the fluorescent material is evenly distributed throughout each particle, both whole plastics and the smaller fragments created as they degrade remain visible.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

Testimonies degrade, facts do not, and yet both are grounded in the very same sensory experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton