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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

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

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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

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

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

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

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

"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

In the disorder of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated into a bloody rivalry of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

“The idea that the Y is still degenerating and destined to disappear is really scotched by this.”

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 23, 2023

They felt that he had done his best and was degenerating.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould