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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Ben Greuel, wildlife campaign manager at the Sierra Club, called the decision “an unlawful attempt to open the door for corporate polluters to degrade vitally important habitats.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

The attacks were designed to “further degrade their ability to threaten freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” according to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

We have thousands of these in storage, and we have studies that show they don’t degrade in a dangerous way.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

“A more conservative association was wanted. And now if we divide and Mrs. Stanton shall be deposed from the presidency you virtually degrade her.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

At a press conference, the island's governor Nigel Phillips said: "The airport fire engines have each developed faults. This degrades the level of fire cover that can be provided."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

“My biggest fear is that it further degrades mainstream confidence in medicine, and actually leads to a kind of Wild West for patients,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

However, they are not without limitations: they are sensitive to external disturbances -- such as strong magnetic fields near a hard drive -- and their performance typically degrades over time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 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

The device worked as intended and then fully degraded within two weeks after activation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

That can add up to more than $100 in savings, with average summer electricity costs projected at $792, but Wolfe said it is largely dependent on how degraded the AC is.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

And while the crisis is also etched in the island's "very degraded" football pitches, the World Cup "allows us to clear our minds for a while," he said with a smile.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Dr Alice Edwards is the UN's special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and Mai Sato is the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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

I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë