descended
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"The debates have once again descended to a fifth-grade level, which is absurd," dentist Lizie Moreira told AFP in Rio.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
However, this is the first time researchers have been able to reconstruct such a clear transition between different thermal conditions as a rock descended from shallower to much greater depths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
In recent weeks, more than 1.6 million visitors have descended upon a park in Busan to catch a glimpse of Bukangi, named after the canal in which she was spotted.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
But many of the offended parties found something more basic at work, the “accusation” that they were descended from monkeys—“Not even from American monkeys,” said the prosecution’s William Jennings Bryan, “but Old World monkeys.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
But I forced my hands against my sides, locked my legs together, and descended.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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