atrophy

Example Sentences

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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

"He was like, 'it's about atrophy and entropy and the forces of the universe'," he said.

From Barron's

The pandemic, for all its lessons, quietly atrophied some of our neighboring muscles, and many of us are still figuring out how to use them again.

From Salon

But if it’s left to atrophy, it can disappear entirely.

From Salon