involution

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This process is called thymic involution, and it reduces the body's ability to produce new T cells.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

Until then, involution is the price to pay for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s goal of industrial self-reliance and global leadership in advanced technologies.

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

"If this can't be halted, the trends in place could lead to a progressive and unsustainable involution of the human capital of most of southern Italy."

From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2023

Thus counting backward led to zero and to the negative numbers; the inversion of involution to the imaginary numbers.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various