atrophy
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One reason employers are hesitant to hire those who have been out of the workforce for a prolonged period of time is that they believe skills atrophy.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
FDA says this would somehow have resulted in less cardiac atrophy on MRIs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"We found there was less brain atrophy and less tau accumulation, which was very exciting to see."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Apitegromab works by blocking a protein involved in the breakdown of muscle and is also being explored as a treatment for other medical conditions affecting muscles, including spinal muscular atrophy.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The psyche can be bombarded only so much by these rhythms before it begins to crumble and atrophy.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Like any skill, it atrophies when we outsource the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
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 ● Mar. 13, 2026
"When you get machines thinking for you, your brain just atrophies."
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
As we age, our brain gradually atrophies, losing nerve cells and connections and this can lead to a decline in brain function.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024
Excessive pursuit of single objects of thought atrophies many faculties, but education is the complete development and discipline of all the faculties.
From Every Man His Own University by Russell H. Conwell
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 ● Jan. 19, 2026
When we met him, he meandered across the field, atrophied by lack of exercise, sat on my foot and looked up with a hopeful demeanor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Those muscles atrophied, leaving a huge opportunity for someone like Matt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025
Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2024
His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
But the Mayor’s Fund had been atrophying for years, with its donations shrinking to a fraction of what it raised under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
After exhausting holistic options, he saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
"After two years, part of my brain was atrophying," one said.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
The work the body does against gravity to stay upright and move around keeps muscles from atrophying and stimulates bone growth.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, arms curled grotesquely at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below 80 pounds.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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