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involution

[in-vuh-loo-shuhn] / ˌɪn vəˈlu ʃən /




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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

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


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