atrophy
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Two things may be true: A.I. is putting unsustainable pressure on managers, and an overreliance on A.I. is causing previously standard skills to atrophy.
From Slate • Apr. 9, 2026
This gives them the right to collect two extra payments of $2 a share each, provided that global sales of Syfovre, the company’s geographic atrophy treatment, hit specific yearly targets.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Apellis has two approved drugs: Empaveli, which is approved to treat two rare kidney diseases, and Syforvre, which is used by patients with geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026
I worry about what AI is going to do, like, is that going to feel so real that it causes our interactional muscles to atrophy?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
The psyche can be bombarded only so much by these rhythms before it begins to crumble and atrophy.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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