degeneracy

Example Sentences

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Las Vegas took your money with gracious respect for your degeneracy, gouging you sweetly and slowly.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025

Mr. Whigham is in his actorly wheelhouse, moral degeneracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

When the scientists saw the lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy, accompanied by the vanishing net magnetisation, they knew they were looking at an altermagnet.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

Normally a quantum mechanical property called degeneracy pressure makes the electrons resist compression, adding support to the core.

From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023

Poetry was a symptom of weakness, of degeneracy and decay.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck