deterioration
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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
“They’re not supposed to live in social isolation, so you see a lot of behavioral deterioration when they’re not getting out,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
They looked at the return of high-yield bonds to the matched public equities for every notch deterioration in credit, over the last 20 years.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
“Can you try a few Planar Reactions to see if there has been any change, any deterioration, in their mental set-up since manufacture?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing deterioration
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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