degrade
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“It’s the fastest way to degrade your loyalty and satisfaction among the people who are traveling with you, because they feel like they’re being nickeled and dimed,” Taylor told me.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
A handshake between the protagonists disguises hell-bent hunger to degrade each other as far as non-contact sport allows.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Traditional storage technologies such as magnetic drives or electronic systems tend to degrade within a few years.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
First, continue to degrade to a “militarily manageable risk” the missiles, mines, drones and unmanned surface combatants that could threaten U.S. forces and tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
Galen’s text had never been accompanied by illustrations—Galen explicitly said that illustrations were worthless—because in a manuscript culture complex illustrations degrade rapidly each time they are copied.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing degrade
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