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
His screen persona has often been the sleaziest of weasels, the connoisseur’s moral degenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
“I see. Now I am being compared to a degenerate old female fraud. Worse, I am losing in the comparison. My own mother daring to malign me so.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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