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degrading

[dih-grey-ding] / dɪˈgreɪ dɪŋ /


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Rigid operational dictates cause infrastructure investment to plummet, ultimately degrading track quality and severely hurting long-term economic productivity.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

It has isolated us and attached us to an impersonal and degrading consumer market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Dodsworth said the following day, when Wignall was arrested, she went to a local police station where she spent 10 hours making statements "about some of the most intimate, degrading points of my life".

From BBC • May 19, 2026

I assume you’re going to live in this new home for the next 20-odd years, and that you have the means to upgrade without degrading your retirement fund.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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