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Despite the dismissal, Burgum vowed that the administration “won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The four former commissioners have signed a joint letter arguing that the gondola proposal “would enable a private development to permanently and irreparably shrink, degrade, and destroy the integrity of a state park.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

The US military said at the time that its strikes were aimed to "degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" - a global route for transporting oil.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The strikes -- which began at 1800 GMT -- were carried out to "further degrade Iranian military capabilities", US Central Command said in a post on X.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

Galen’s text had never been accompanied by illustrations—Galen explicitly said that illustrations were worthless—because in a manuscript culture complex illustrations degrade rapidly each time they are copied.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

When a biopsy is taken, the genetic material in the tissue degrades within hours, unless it is protected.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

"Most importantly, we found that the exact spatial arrangement of these neighboring groups dramatically changes how fast the polymer degrades," Gu said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

The updated lawsuit also points to a blog post OpenAI published the day the initial lawsuit was filed, in which it acknowledged that its safety training sometimes degrades in long conversations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Thimerosal degrades into ethylmercury, which was judged not to be a danger at the level that would come from a vaccine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

We are surrounded by a lobby which degrades every man here by constant temptation and offers of corruption; the monopoly has made it no place where a careful father will send his son.”

From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal

Power lines have degraded, causing the loss of about 16% of the grid’s electricity, according to research by Torres.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Save the Redwoods League last month conveyed the 125-acre property to the Yurok Tribe following a years-long project to restore the degraded industrial site to a diverse riparian habitat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

"I think we have to realise that there are limitations there, and that the US has degraded their defence industrial base to a very significant extent," he says.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

The plasma treatment almost completely degraded both long-chain and short-chain PFAS.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

The two children were on the sofa, their sobs having degraded into tearful whimpers.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The researchers found that excess EXO1 destabilizes newly formed DNA through two main mechanisms, expanding single-stranded DNA gaps and degrading reversed replication forks.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

Rigid operational dictates cause infrastructure investment to plummet, ultimately degrading track quality and severely hurting long-term economic productivity.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Nowak's family called his treatment by police "inhumane and degrading" and the force has apologised.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

It has isolated us and attached us to an impersonal and degrading consumer market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

“It was a clear sign that lenders had lost it, constantly degrading their own standards to grow loan volumes,” Burry said.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis