degradation
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"Then they try to suppress it, and that can come with a lot of performance degradation," Farre Kaga said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
But even performance degradation - small increases in the time it takes data to travel - could be costly for banks, stock exchanges, cloud providers and government networks.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The storm swells are likely to create more problems for coastal communities that have suffered severe beach degradation this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Weeks later, Chief State Prosecutor Zejnulla Gashi announced an investigation into state-run power plants over suspected criminal "contamination, degradation and destruction of the environment".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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Repair and protect democracy and we could perhaps claw back its original sins as well as its distortions and degradations.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
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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"Mammoth Shakes and Monster Waves" Vocabulary from the informational text
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