degenerate

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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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee