degenerating

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Not to get too philosophical, but everything alive is degenerating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The findings offer new insight into how bone cells may influence pain signaling in degenerating spines.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

A subtle pathos, along with the playwright’s verbal sophistication, prevents the play from degenerating into a collegiate vaudeville.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

That level of organization and conservation of DNA suggests the Y chromosome isn’t degenerating into obsolescence, Jobling says.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 23, 2023

Now and then Tom felt uncomfortably about his practical joke, which was degenerating into a deception.

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan