involution
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The most famous are "lying flat", when people opt out of the rat race entirely, and "involution", a rather clunky term now commonly used to describe intense competition which generates little meaningful reward.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2025
The efforts so far focus on several industries where involution is particularly pronounced such as steel, coal, batteries, electric vehicles and food delivery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
“I thought by opening a stall I could escape the involution of looking for work,” one vendor wrote on Xiaohongshu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Corpora lutea undergo rapid involution following oviposition and, after two to three weeks, are little more than small puckerings on the ovarian epithelium.
From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler
