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In contrast, higher consumption of sweets was associated with faster ventricular enlargement and greater hippocampal atrophy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

One reason employers are hesitant to hire those who have been out of the workforce for a prolonged period of time is that they believe skills atrophy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

FDA says this would somehow have resulted in less cardiac atrophy on MRIs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Apitegromab works by blocking a protein involved in the breakdown of muscle and is also being explored as a treatment for other medical conditions affecting muscles, including spinal muscular atrophy.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

The gates popped open with a metallic screech and we slipped through the small gap rust and atrophy would allow.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Like any skill, it atrophies when we outsource the work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

NBCUniversal is cutting “Access Hollywood” and several other of its daytime talk shows, effectively ending its first run syndication business as daytime television atrophies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

"When you get machines thinking for you, your brain just atrophies."

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025

As we age, our brain gradually atrophies, losing nerve cells and connections and this can lead to a decline in brain function.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

Even when absorbed into the tissues in minute doses it corrodes the brain and atrophies the intellect.

From The Bartlett Mystery by Louis Tracy

The house was a metaphor for the coldness of a relationship that’s faded and atrophied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

“It’s like a muscle that maybe has atrophied a little bit over the years,” Gould said in his interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

The pandemic, for all its lessons, quietly atrophied some of our neighboring muscles, and many of us are still figuring out how to use them again.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

Social skills and conversational ease have stiffened and atrophied.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2024

“The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead,” she said sharply.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“My hunch is that we’re atrophying our brains,” says Wolkowitz, 38.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

After exhausting holistic options, he saw a doctor who said one of his vocal cords was atrophying.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024

Revenue fell 4 percent, largely because of the company’s atrophying cable television business, which includes CNN.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

"After two years, part of my brain was atrophying," one said.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024

Over the weeks that followed he languished in the hospital, arms curled grotesquely at his sides, muscles atrophying, his weight dropping below 80 pounds.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer