degrade

Example Sentences

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Traditional storage technologies such as magnetic drives or electronic systems tend to degrade within a few years.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

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

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

“But it didn’t defeat the Houthis or degrade them to the point where they are unable to carry out future attacks in the Red Sea.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

“You can’t degrade the travel experience for decades and then scold people for dressing to endure the experience,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 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