deteriorate

Example Sentences

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If commodity prices rise and a country’s import bills swell, trade balances would deteriorate, and that tends to hurt currencies, noted Angrick.

From The Wall Street Journal

"My children are watching me deteriorate. I've not really got that much energy any more," she says.

From BBC

In both Scotland and Wales, well over half say their country's economy has got worse over the last 12 months and around half feel their health service has deteriorated.

From BBC

But if it spirals out of control, such questions are only likely to grow, as occurred in Iraq when things started to deteriorate there, he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Job-market conditions for recent college graduates deteriorated at the end of last year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

From MarketWatch