degradation

Another factor is the degradation of Russia’s refinery infrastructure, which has sustained considerable damage from Ukrainian attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

If not, at least he’d get a major degradation of its military power that would somehow deliver a short war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Nagarajan said they have had positive results: "We've seen up to 20% degradation in terms of toxins and we've also seen a lot of the algal cells being destroyed because of the effect of cavitation."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

This cleanup process, known as RNA degradation, helps regulate protein production, eliminate faulty RNA, and control immune responses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

A 15-year survey considers an artist whose witty lacerations of power relations are as comfortable taking on motherhood as they are the degradations of corporate culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

First, he didn’t mention a word about poverty as a primary driver of environmental degradations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2020

In The House of God, the central critique is forceful because it is narrow: The various degradations of hospital work are displayed vividly and repeatedly.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright