degenerate

“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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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

After a few minutes of conversation in which I established most easily my moral superiority over this degenerate, I found myself pondering once more the crises of our times.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

Over the course of the film, he gradually degenerates into a disgusting creature nicknamed "Brundlefly."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023

“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

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

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

At Hampden she was thought something of a beauty but I loathed her lolloping, spaniel-like walk and her little-girl voice—very affected, it seemed to me—which degenerated frequently into a whine.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

They quickly discovered a waste-internalizing glial canal system that undergoes structural abnormalities in degenerating spider brains, which leads to uncontrolled depletion and death of brain cells.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

“You ought to know, sir, that all animals increase, instead of degenerating in size, by being transplanted to domestic life.”

From The Domestic Cat by Gordon Stables