degeneration
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In the United States, age-related macular degeneration is one of the most common causes of permanent vision loss in adults who are 60 and older.
From Science Daily
Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish—retained critical and popular esteem, but most were ignored by middle-class tastemakers or maligned as conduits of cultural degeneration.
In March 2020, he gave an interview to the tabloid Chelcheragh marking the Persian New Year, in which he described being unable to read or write any longer due to macular degeneration.
From Seattle Times
The world is moving on; those who’d rather it stand still are eager to push narratives depicting these shifts as degeneration and white Christian heterosexual America as profoundly imperiled.
From New York Times
When asked whether some in society valued pets more than children, he said that it was a reality that reflected a “sign of cultural degeneration.”
From New York Times
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