atrophy

Example Sentences

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“It’s like a muscle that maybe has atrophied a little bit over the years,” Gould said in his interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal

NBCUniversal is cutting “Access Hollywood” and several other of its daytime talk shows, effectively ending its first run syndication business as daytime television atrophies.

From Los Angeles Times

"Launching every three years, your skills atrophy, you lose muscle memory."

From Barron's

I worry about what AI is going to do, like, is that going to feel so real that it causes our interactional muscles to atrophy?

From Los Angeles Times

If those muscles are not used, then they atrophy.

From Salon