worsen

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Appetite may decrease, oral health can worsen, chronic illnesses become more common and many older people take medicines that affect how nutrients are absorbed, used or cleared from the body.

From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026

One way to gauge how much those pressures could worsen is to monitor where the bond market expects inflation to go next.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Fort is just one of several new businesses - from high-tech hydraulic homes to grass-clearing goats - to emerge as wildfires continue to worsen.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The pope knows that some contemporary responses to technological concentration may worsen the problem they seek to solve.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Ngawang’s condition continued to worsen as the day dragged on.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer