degenerate
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The strongest signal appeared in people whose mitral valves had already begun to degenerate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
I’m kind of glad that I’m not so much of a degenerate anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
“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
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Why, then, did they degenerate outside cells, like fog slipping through fingers?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“You don’t need to worry about presenting a certain way or being perceived in a certain way. All the characters in ‘The Pineapple’ are degenerates, and this show invites you to become one as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
“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
What do you see are some of the things that can keep perspectives on this matchup fresh and maybe move beyond the horse race aspect that election coverage always degenerates into?
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
“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
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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
Vellya Paapen’s good intentions quickly degenerated into nagging and bickering and a general air of unpleasantness between father and son.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Ophelia was kept in hospital for tests for nine days, after which she began a daily oral medication that "maintains muscle cells from degenerating".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"Perhaps they can add new brain cells to a network that is degenerating," Salta says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
“All of this has been degenerating for a long time,” Melgar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
If the adaptation of an animal to its environment is secured by "degenerating" or "developing" or by remaining stationary, it will do one of the three.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Chapman Cohen
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