deterioration
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The stock has fallen 22% year to date through Thursday, weighed by concerns about higher costs of memory chips used in game consoles and a possible deterioration in consumer sentiment amid the Middle East conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
No other labor-market indicators have shown a deterioration.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
It also comes with fear of a deterioration in quality of life.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
On Friday, the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, run by her family, said she had been transferred to a hospital in Zanjan province "following a catastrophic deterioration in her health".
From BBC • May 2, 2026
We have lost the innocence of it, of those days before we knew the extent of the aunts’ rage, before Gran’s death and Granddad’s deterioration.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Vocabulary lists containing deterioration
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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