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Despite the dismissal, Burgum vowed that the administration “won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The four former commissioners have signed a joint letter arguing that the gondola proposal “would enable a private development to permanently and irreparably shrink, degrade, and destroy the integrity of a state park.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

The US military said at the time that its strikes were aimed to "degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz" - a global route for transporting oil.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Google hit out at Brussels, saying the EU forced the company to degrade products in the bloc.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 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

At a press conference, the island's governor Nigel Phillips said: "The airport fire engines have each developed faults. This degrades the level of fire cover that can be provided."

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

"Most importantly, we found that the exact spatial arrangement of these neighboring groups dramatically changes how fast the polymer degrades," Gu said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

Ferrari also faces the risk of its EV losing value faster than its traditional models as the battery degrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Sickness spreads, often directly through viruses or indirectly by depleting family resources, putting stress on people that degrades their health.

From Salon ● May 27, 2025

MacArthur, Wheaton, Lawton, Bates, Young, Funston, and the rest of the fighting generals, had submitted to all the Otis follies without a murmur, because insubordination degrades an army into a rabble.

From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.

Initially, the model degraded responses to some questions about AI development without notifying users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Save the Redwoods League last month conveyed the 125-acre property to the Yurok Tribe following a years-long project to restore the degraded industrial site to a diverse riparian habitat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Known as living plastics, these materials contain dormant microbes capable of degrading the surrounding polymer.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

But the stockpiles were initially designed for up to five full drawdowns, and the frequent releases are degrading the sites’ integrity, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

"That was the start of a lonely, degrading, dark time in my life," she said.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Nowak's family called his treatment by police "inhumane and degrading" and the force has apologised.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

I’d have to begin that degrading nonsense again.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler