degradation
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For scientists studying plastic pollution, the finding offers a promising clue about how biological degradation might be improved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Another could be used to slow the degradation of advanced solar cells called perovskites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"This sounds theoretical and naive but you know you destroy nature at your peril and I think we see around the world the consequences of nature degradation," she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The addresses, she said, are “representative of the total degradation of all our historic places and maintaining something special versus Everywhere, USA.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Major Major had bought the dark glasses and false mustache in Rome in a final, futile attempt to save himself from the swampy degradation into which he was steadily sinking.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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At first, Natasha’s antipathy toward parenthood feels refreshingly specific, with its focus on the mundane degradations that can haunt the imaginations of the happily childless.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2022
Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021
If a child is being made to feel unwanted, attacked, or sad because of the degradations of other students, something should be done immediately.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2020
She simply lets the degradations of Ivy, Ruby and Wren pile up until the nature of the crisis is inescapable.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2020
But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Vocabulary lists containing degradation
"Marigolds," Vocabulary from the short story
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By the Roots: Grad-, Gress-: to step
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