degraded
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Degraded peatlands, such as those trampled by horses, can instead be carbon sources, releasing more carbon back into the atmosphere than they capture.
From Science Daily • Nov. 8, 2023
Degraded tablets have a larger surface area, causing them to burn too fast and ignite too big of an explosion, according to the lawsuit.
From Seattle Times • May 13, 2023
Degraded forests also tend to store less carbon.
From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2023
Degraded farmland or cities would likely reveal far fewer insects.
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2022
Degraded in their own eyes, and being no longer able to reign through the graces of virtue, they fall into the opposite extreme, and display all the audaciousness of vice.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
Vocabulary lists containing degraded
"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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"Ellen West" by Frank Bidart
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