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“You won’t see Coke or Disney or Nike in my degenerate economy, but you see all the exchanges,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

These stellar remnants behave in unusual ways, since their internal structure makes them shrink as they gain mass, which is why they are known as degenerate stars.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2025

You need to be a true degenerate for Las Vegas to break your heart.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

One commentor suggested we were all members of the illuminati, or the Freemasons, who gathered with other well-heeled or well-connected degenerates to prove to ourselves that we were above the common herd.

From Slate ● May 27, 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

Hilary prompted the first-ever tropical storm watches and warnings in California, but officials now say it had degenerated into a post-tropical low when it hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

"Based on these findings, we hypothesize that targeting dysfunctional synapses before the neurons are degenerated may represent a better therapeutic strategy."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2023

“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

It had earlier said he could not be transferred elsewhere due to his degenerating condition.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

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

There came a period when the intellect, instead of pursuing its rise, was, in reality, degenerating into the darkness of superstition.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield