degradation
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One population of old chondrocytes that produced 15-PGDH and expressed genes associated with cartilage degradation dropped from 8% of cells to 3%.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
SEL1L helps identify proteins that should be removed and directs them toward degradation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
The first session was marked by drivers commenting on the high level of tyre degradation caused by the abrasive surface, and Russell in particular noticed this was high on the Mercedes.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
“You end up making subconscious adjustments where you’re protecting yourself,” Friedman said, “and there’s just slight degradation as that’s happening that compounds over time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Optical fibers, by contrast, can carry very high-frequency optical pulses on the same individual fiber without substantial signal degradation for many, many miles.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Repair and protect democracy and we could perhaps claw back its original sins as well as its distortions and degradations.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
The boy keeps thinking of King’s remarks about “the degradations of Jim Crow and the need to transform that degradation into action.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 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
Vocabulary lists containing degradation
"Marigolds," Vocabulary from the short story
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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"Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves" Vocabulary from the informational text
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