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Donated blood has to be used within 42 days because blood cells degrade over time.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Google hit out at Brussels, saying the EU forced the company to degrade products in the bloc.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

“The strikes further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels,” Centcom said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Since then, the U.S. military has launched multiple rounds of strikes that officials said were intended to degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Copper wires can carry very high frequencies too, but only for a few feet before the signal starts to degrade in strength due to certain parasitic effects.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

When a biopsy is taken, the genetic material in the tissue degrades within hours, unless it is protected.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

“My biggest fear is that it further degrades mainstream confidence in medicine, and actually leads to a kind of Wild West for patients,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

"Most importantly, we found that the exact spatial arrangement of these neighboring groups dramatically changes how fast the polymer degrades," Gu said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

Sickness spreads, often directly through viruses or indirectly by depleting family resources, putting stress on people that degrades their health.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

Objection.—This doctrine degrades God to the level of the finite; both being alike conditioned.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

Initially, the model degraded responses to some questions about AI development without notifying users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Save the Redwoods League last month conveyed the 125-acre property to the Yurok Tribe following a years-long project to restore the degraded industrial site to a diverse riparian habitat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

The study also documented what scientists call a "regime shift" -- the point at which an ecosystem crosses a threshold and rapidly reorganizes into a fundamentally different and often degraded condition.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

The only way to eradicate transformation was to digest the material with an enzyme that, of all things, degraded DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Critics of the sentence have described it as "inhumane and degrading".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

But the stockpiles were initially designed for up to five full drawdowns, and the frequent releases are degrading the sites’ integrity, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The researchers found that excess EXO1 destabilizes newly formed DNA through two main mechanisms, expanding single-stranded DNA gaps and degrading reversed replication forks.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

But Nowak's family said the way he was treated by police was "inhumane and degrading".

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

There is a theory that the process of aging may be due to the cumulative effect of imprecision, a gradual degrading of information.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas