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depletes

verb as in consume, exhaust supply

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Social isolation also limits opportunities for cognitive functioning, and navigating the world in the face of hearing loss depletes cognitive resources that would otherwise be used to maintain brain function.

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Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers.

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Comparing it to a “literal gold rush” that depletes finite natural resources, Tamay Besiroglu, an author of the study, said the AI field might face challenges in maintaining its current pace of progress once it drains the reserves of human-generated writing.

In areas where unchecked pumping from wells severely depletes aquifers, once-thriving wetlands and forests can dry up and die.

"In general chemistry we learn that carbon dioxide reacts with hydroxide to form carbonate. That's undesired because it depletes the molecule we want to valorize," said Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering Chibueze Amanchukwu.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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