degraded
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Midrange drones have degraded some Russian electronic-warfare systems and hobbled 300 vessels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
If some of these satellites get hacked, damaged, derailed, or destroyed, America’s ability to fight a war would be seriously degraded.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Meanwhile Ezra Cohen, the former Trump defence official who is now a fellow at the Hudson Institute, described the president as having degraded Iran's conventional military threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
There are a few fun visual gags about the degraded far-future — a hospital named St. God’s, the city’s digital clock tower being stuck on a blinking 12:00 — but its punchlines tend toward nasty.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The European woman, Fannie Kimball, who had married a Southern white slaveowner, described how human beings were degraded.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Vocabulary lists containing degraded
"The Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)
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