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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

Central Command said the wave of strikes was meant to “further degrade Iranian military capabilities.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

The attacks, like previous rounds, were designed to degrade Iran’s ability to launch attacks on commercial vessels transiting the strait and focused on areas near the strait and along the coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Testimonies degrade, facts do not, and yet both are grounded in the very same sensory experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

As frozen ground degrades, previously buried minerals become exposed and water interacts more extensively with rock surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

"This was before plastic was introduced into bank notes, it degrades," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Ferrari also faces the risk of its EV losing value faster than its traditional models as the battery degrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Sickness spreads, often directly through viruses or indirectly by depleting family resources, putting stress on people that degrades their health.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

You don't understand, but it degrades me, it pollutes me!

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer

Initially, the model degraded responses to some questions about AI development without notifying users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

The scheme, alongside others including Nuclear Waste Services and Cumbria Wildlife Trust, will involve surveying the county's sand dune habitats which, like those in the rest of the country, have been historically degraded.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The only way to eradicate transformation was to digest the material with an enzyme that, of all things, degraded DNA.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

But the stockpiles were initially designed for up to five full drawdowns, and the frequent releases are degrading the sites’ integrity, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

"That was the start of a lonely, degrading, dark time in my life," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

I’d have to begin that degrading nonsense again.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler