erosion

Apart from an erosion of market power and more distant customer relationships, purchase mistakes could lead to higher merchandise returns or credit-card chargebacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"The erosion of the forest, both in size and in number of species, reduces the space available for communities and fuels conflicts," the lawyer added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Another one — in 2015-16 — did not result in above-average rain but did cause record coastal erosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Another one did not result in above-average rain, but did cause record coastal erosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

In only about a hundred years in that city’s Central Park, its inscriptions have been almost totally obliterated, because of smog and industrial pollution—chemical erosion like that in the atmosphere of Venus.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The ongoing Ebola crisis is escalating quickly, already ranked the third largest outbreak in history — and experts say erosions of U.S. health policy have fueled the crisis.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

And because the world, and one’s continued engagement with it, is a repeated litany of small erosions, it is through the practice of beauty that we learn to survive, to soar even.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

Despite its brutal aftermath, and subsequent erosions at the margins, Worcester’s hard-won holding — that Native nations remain independent of the states — has remained good law, until now.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

Bangladesh is at the epicentre of the global climate crisis - 80% of the country is floodplain, and it is affected by floods, storms, riverbank erosions, cyclones and droughts.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2021

My face has not ignored the passage of time, but recorded it with scars, lines, furrows, and erosions.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck