degrade

Example Sentences

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The judgement said the trust's policy had an "admirable and noble purpose", but it had the effect of "violating the dignity" of the nurses and of "creating for them a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment".

From BBC

To reduce any risk of gastrointestinal blockage, the MIT team designed a bioresorbable system that can safely degrade after use.

From Science Daily

“We’ve repeatedly requested that Perplexity remove Amazon from the Comet experience, particularly in light of the significantly degraded shopping and customer service experience it provides,” Amazon said in a statement at the time.

From Barron's

More recently, residents of his Skid Row developments told The Times that sanitation and security services degraded months after he purchased 17 aging buildings held in receivership by the city of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times

In a carefully designed experiment, they observed a physical system in which transport does not degrade at all.

From Science Daily