degraded
Example Sentences
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Current Venezuelan oil production, fluctuating between 800,000 and 1 million barrels a day, is hampered by degraded infrastructure and a severe loss of skilled workers.
From Barron's
Current Venezuelan oil production, fluctuating between 800,000 and 1 million barrels a day, is hampered by degraded infrastructure and a severe loss of skilled workers.
From Barron's
"It just shows how degraded this ecosystem is."
From BBC
Eissa Zidan, head of conservation projects at the museum, said the wooden planks were "thermally degraded and in a very weak condition".
From Barron's
"However, if you don't have the right bacteria, that's when it becomes problematic. Because in those conditions, sorbitol doesn't get degraded and as a result, it is passed on to the liver," he said.
From Science Daily
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