degradation
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They cite a lack of research, that nearly no other countries have approved use of these products, and their concerns about how the peptides are made, including the degradation and concentration of active ingredients.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
It plays a vital role in flood protection, helping shield downstream residential areas, and has a "unique aquatic ecosystem" that has faced "severe environmental degradation caused by fly-tipping and littering", Brombil Reservoir Ltd said.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Keeping the bacteria in spore form protected them until the team was ready to begin the degradation process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
The fair buildings were complete and all exhibits were in place, but just as surely as silver tarnishes, the fair became subject to the inevitable forces of degradation and decline—and tragedy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
A 15-year survey considers an artist whose witty lacerations of power relations are as comfortable taking on motherhood as they are the degradations of corporate culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
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
In The House of God, the central critique is forceful because it is narrow: The various degradations of hospital work are displayed vividly and repeatedly.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2019
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
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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"Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves" Vocabulary from the informational text
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