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degradation

[deg-ruh-day-shuhn] / ˌdɛg rəˈdeɪ ʃən /


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Although these approaches can help compensate for degradation or shield the surface, they also introduce additional material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Another could be used to slow the degradation of advanced solar cells called perovskites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"This sounds theoretical and naive but you know you destroy nature at your peril and I think we see around the world the consequences of nature degradation," she said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The degradation of their habitat by wildfires as well as a lack of food sources prompted their rescue in mid-September.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

By making a circle of themselves that separated the human spirits within from the degradation without.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

At first, Natasha’s antipathy toward parenthood feels refreshingly specific, with its focus on the mundane degradations that can haunt the imaginations of the happily childless.

From New York Times ● May 12, 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

If a child is being made to feel unwanted, attacked, or sad because of the degradations of other students, something should be done immediately.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2020

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


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