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The exposed animals developed movement problems and lost dopamine-producing neurons, the same type of brain cells that degenerate in Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

That it no longer seems to be leaves us all morally degenerate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

“If somebody launched a 5x Nvidia product tomorrow, it would probably get half a million dollars overnight. The appetite for degenerate leverage is pretty strong right now,” Nadig told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025

“It was like a full-on summer camp for degenerate punk rockers, if you will,” Dragge says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

A crew composed entirely of eight amped-up, overtly aggressive oarsmen will often degenerate into a dysfunctional brawl in a boat or exhaust itself in the first leg of a long race.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

As the valve tissue degenerates, the thin flaps that should meet neatly can thicken, stretch, or lose their normal shape.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

By targeting the “worst” degenerates first, they fractured the opposition, and inadvertently created that “First they came for…” poem that we all now memorize in middle school.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2025

“When my dad’s wife died a couple of years back, it was those rave degenerates who were there for me,” she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

Over the course of the film, he gradually degenerates into a disgusting creature nicknamed "Brundlefly."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

“If our search degenerates to that level I’ll be sure to call on you,” I said without looking in his direction.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

By 2024, my hobby was starting to feel like work, and it was only a matter of time before the sport degenerated enough to make it official.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

Wingtech representatives responded that the Dutch intervention was "incomprehensible" and meant the row "degenerated needlessly".

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

In contrast, workers are wingless females with smaller body size and degenerated reproductive tracts, usually without a sperm storage organ.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

The storm prompted the first-ever tropical storm watches and warnings issued in California, but officials now say it had degenerated into a post-tropical low by the time it reached the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

“If there was any rivalry between the girls, the game often degenerated into a first-class brawl,” said Melita.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025

In many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the neurons start degenerating at a very early stage -- sometimes years before other brain regions begin to falter.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

That level of organization and conservation of DNA suggests the Y chromosome isn’t degenerating into obsolescence, Jobling says.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023

Her old assurance had deserted her; the strangulated contralto was losing its magic power, she felt, in this degenerating England it had ruled so long.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells