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The US strikes, on the eighth successive night of attacks, were "designed to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz", Centcom said.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Eastern time to “continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The strikes aimed "to degrade Iran's ability to continue attacking international commerce flowing through the international trade corridor", it said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

No generation has the right to dictate to another what its culture ought to be, or to degrade its choices as stupid and offensive.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

When a biopsy is taken, the genetic material in the tissue degrades within hours, unless it is protected.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

Lifespan: Heavy use degrades the coating in about a year, though judicious care can extend the pan’s life to, say, three years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

“It significantly degrades trust ... and people will also be hurt because they won’t trust the messaging.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025

We are surrounded by a lobby which degrades every man here by constant temptation and offers of corruption; the monopoly has made it no place where a careful father will send his son.”

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

The plasma treatment almost completely degraded both long-chain and short-chain PFAS.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Peatlands store 30% of Wales' land-based carbon, despite covering only 4% of the surface, but they are about 90% degraded, meaning they leak greenhouse gases instead of storing them.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

High-energy lasers are degraded by atmospheric conditions — rain, fog, sand and smoke all scatter and absorb the beam, reducing effective range and time on target.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

I found another set of degraded codes and reversed them.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Rigid operational dictates cause infrastructure investment to plummet, ultimately degrading track quality and severely hurting long-term economic productivity.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

The hapless man, Mr. de la Bédoyère writes, “sat by, unable or perhaps unwilling by virtue of his status and deference to do anything about the degrading spectacle.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Dodsworth said the following day, when Wignall was arrested, she went to a local police station where she spent 10 hours making statements "about some of the most intimate, degrading points of my life".

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

But what none of us realized was how demeaning and degrading this actually was.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers