degenerate

“Club Kid” is an indie comedy-drama about a self-involved, degenerate playboy who unexpectedly finds himself being saddled with a son.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

“Degen” is a term that alludes to degenerate gamblers and first gained popularity on Reddit to refer to investors who gravitate toward wildly risky strategies.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

These stellar remnants behave in unusual ways, since their internal structure makes them shrink as they gain mass, which is why they are known as degenerate stars.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2025

“It was like a full-on summer camp for degenerate punk rockers, if you will,” Dragge says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2025

“I see. Now I am being compared to a degenerate old female fraud. Worse, I am losing in the comparison. My own mother daring to malign me so.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

“You don’t need to worry about presenting a certain way or being perceived in a certain way. All the characters in ‘The Pineapple’ are degenerates, and this show invites you to become one as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

As the valve tissue degenerates, the thin flaps that should meet neatly can thicken, stretch, or lose their normal shape.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

By targeting the “worst” degenerates first, they fractured the opposition, and inadvertently created that “First they came for…” poem that we all now memorize in middle school.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2025

“When my dad’s wife died a couple of years back, it was those rave degenerates who were there for me,” she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

“If our search degenerates to that level I’ll be sure to call on you,” I said without looking in his direction.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Some 70,000 members of the security forces were deployed Saturday, ready to move in quickly after mass protests on October 17 degenerated into the worst riots seen in France in years.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026

The opposite pattern appeared in rats whose orexin neurons had been selectively degenerated.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

By 2024, my hobby was starting to feel like work, and it was only a matter of time before the sport degenerated enough to make it official.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026

Hilary prompted the first-ever tropical storm watches and warnings in California, but officials now say it had degenerated into a post-tropical low when it hit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

“If there was any rivalry between the girls, the game often degenerated into a first-class brawl,” said Melita.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

France has been rocked by widespread anger over the rising cost of living and inequality, with nationwide demonstrations on October 17 degenerating into some of the country's worst rioting in years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ophelia was kept in hospital for tests for nine days, after which she began a daily oral medication that "maintains muscle cells from degenerating".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

“All of this has been degenerating for a long time,” Melgar said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

This conversation is degenerating into a wrangle in which I have the traditional chance a snowball has in the place where motion-pictures were spawned.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance