degenerate
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“Disneyland is tiny compared with the U.S. capital markets, and that goes into the degenerate economy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
I’m kind of glad that I’m not so much of a degenerate anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Rushing, degenerate mutter of noises I send out before me wherever I creep, like a dragon burning his way through vines and fog.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
“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
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
“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
The opposite pattern appeared in rats whose orexin neurons had been selectively degenerated.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
The issues had degenerated to who would win.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
"Perhaps they can add new brain cells to a network that is degenerating," Salta says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
“All of this has been degenerating for a long time,” Melgar said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
The Speaker, at Warwick, said that "the bicyclists of the day are debilitating and degenerating the human race by the way in which they stoop over their work."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various
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