deteriorate

Example Sentences

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Within two days of being there, her condition deteriorated and she was returned to hospital.

From BBC

Relative performance also has deteriorated since the start of 2025, with the stock lagging behind its financial peers.

From Barron's

Or that the public housing she championed would itself deteriorate so badly that, by 1990, the federal government would label much of it as “severely distressed”—and demolish it for having become a latter-day slum.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then her eyesight deteriorated, which necessitated a month of radiation.

From Los Angeles Times

The company has said in the past that, once tariffs were implemented last year, volumes from countries hit with import duties fell, and, in the case of volume from China, “deteriorated sharply.”

From MarketWatch