degenerate

The strongest signal appeared in people whose mitral valves had already begun to degenerate.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

I’m kind of glad that I’m not so much of a degenerate anymore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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

That it no longer seems to be leaves us all morally degenerate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

My dad’s always treated me like I was just another thing sucking his hard-earned money out of his pocket; now, I’m also the degenerate who cost him an interview.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

“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

French authorities on Thursday imposed bans or restrictions on fresh protests springing up in the wake of demonstrations last weekend that degenerated into the worst street violence in years.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 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

In time, the tobogganing degenerated into a snowball fight, which the old folks seemed to be enjoying as much as Karl and his friends were.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

It had earlier said he could not be transferred elsewhere due to his degenerating condition.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2025

They also looked at the fly equivalent of microglia, called ensheathing glia, whose primary function is to remove neural debris, such as degenerating axons.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2023

Your system of private information is degenerating into private persecution, and would at last establish a state of things perfectly intolerable.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. by Charles James Lever