degradation

In the 1980s, Japanese buyers began pushing up the prices of matsutake mushrooms and looking for them abroad after environmental degradation led to a collapse in yields at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

But even performance degradation - small increases in the time it takes data to travel - could be costly for banks, stock exchanges, cloud providers and government networks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The storm swells are likely to create more problems for coastal communities that have suffered severe beach degradation this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Pentagon said the reduced drills would cause "no degradation to US training objectives".

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Optical fibers, by contrast, can carry very high-frequency optical pulses on the same individual fiber without substantial signal degradation for many, many miles.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

A 15-year survey considers an artist whose witty lacerations of power relations are as comfortable taking on motherhood as they are the degradations of corporate culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

First, he didn’t mention a word about poverty as a primary driver of environmental degradations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2020

In The House of God, the central critique is forceful because it is narrow: The various degradations of hospital work are displayed vividly and repeatedly.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright