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Recognizing that 9/11’s horrors compounded over the years does not degrade the memory of its initial victims.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

It has taken a few generations to degrade our public schools and it will take a few, if not more, to restore them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

The findings from Dubilier and her colleagues suggest that animals may help degrade natural bioplastics alongside microorganisms.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

He then added he would not attend the count as Essex Police had told him about an "organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

As permafrost degrades, glacial lake outbursts and rock-ice avalanches are expected to increase, producing faster, debris-laden floods that are harder to forecast.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The updated lawsuit also points to a blog post OpenAI published the day the initial lawsuit was filed, in which it acknowledged that its safety training sometimes degrades in long conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Diet activates autophagy -- a cellular "clean-up" process that degrades and recycles damaged proteins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

Sickness spreads, often directly through viruses or indirectly by depleting family resources, putting stress on people that degrades their health.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

Boswell, employing his materials with excellent effect for the purposes of his book, degrades himself.

From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

There are a few fun visual gags about the degraded far-future — a hospital named St. God’s, the city’s digital clock tower being stuck on a blinking 12:00 — but its punchlines tend toward nasty.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Intensive agriculture, the application of chemicals and extreme weather linked to climate change have degraded up to 40 percent of land globally.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

It's a problem for degraded peatland which makes up about 80% of Scotland's total, but for those in a near-natural state the peat can act as a defence.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Detecting it in fossil bone therefore provides an additional chemical clue that degraded collagen is present.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

But it was better, I figured, to have Ronnie a little peeved than to have me a whole lot damaged and degraded, just because I’d let my guard down for three and one-third seconds.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

It acknowledged that data centers employ tens of thousands of union members while pledging to fight to keep AI from degrading job quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

“The experience was traumatizing, degrading and humiliating,” André said when the lawsuit was filed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

A ride on a people mover feels even more degrading in comparison to the alternative mode serving other travelers.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Experts told the BBC that the biggest threat of the hacks was not to the water supply itself, but in degrading public confidence in the security of their water.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

And Dasch felt that the tipping system was degrading.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple