degenerate
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“Disneyland is tiny compared with the U.S. capital markets, and that goes into the degenerate economy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The strongest signal appeared in people whose mitral valves had already begun to degenerate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
You need to be a true degenerate for Las Vegas to break your heart.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
That it no longer seems to be leaves us all morally degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Why, then, did they degenerate outside cells, like fog slipping through fingers?
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“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
“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
What do you see are some of the things that can keep perspectives on this matchup fresh and maybe move beyond the horse race aspect that election coverage always degenerates into?
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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
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
Wingtech representatives responded that the Dutch intervention was "incomprehensible" and meant the row "degenerated needlessly".
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
The storm prompted the first-ever tropical storm watches and warnings issued in California, but officials now say it had degenerated into a post-tropical low by the time it reached the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
“As a result, the storm lost tropical characteristics and degenerated to a post-tropical cyclone over northern Baja California,” the new analysis said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 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
"Perhaps they can add new brain cells to a network that is degenerating," Salta says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
The danger of degenerating into mannerism is incident to every original manner.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
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