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• At the end the show predictably deteriorated into a wrestling match, dragging everyone down into the swamp.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Some decades after the painting was done, that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear due to the constituent parts of the paint.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• The week, which had started with the dream of connection and romance, deteriorated into both of us going through the motions—and not all that well.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 3 Nov. 2025
• But many have deteriorated into abominable conditions despite city efforts to force owners to clean them up.
  — David Calvert, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2021
• The incident has sparked widespread protests in the city, some of which have deteriorated into arson, looting, and other rioting.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2020
• In more recent weeks, some of the demonstrations have deteriorated into arson, looting, and violence against police.
  — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 9 Aug. 2020
• Simon managed to keep scribbling on his yellow legal pad but his handwriting, illegible on a good day, quickly deteriorated into nothing more than chicken scratch.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
• Emily caught a cold at his funeral but refused to seek medical treatment, even as her illness deteriorated into tuberculosis.
  — Michelle Mehrtens, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• The graveyard of kitchen fads is wide and deep, littered with the domestic equivalent of white dwarf stars that blazed with astonishing luminosity for a moment and then deteriorated into space junk.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• Both sites have since deteriorated into eyesore properties and remain boarded and fenced following break-ins, loitering and other types of code violations.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
• What Trump seems to have hoped would be a Venezuela redux—a quick decapitation of the regime followed by a swift deal with the leader’s successor—has deteriorated into a regional war.
  — Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
• The routine traffic stop deteriorated into a profanity-laden debate.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2025
• Over time, moreover, a unified Vietnam deteriorated into an economic basket case and regional pariah.
  — Mark Atwood Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2021
• By the middle of the first week, dissatisfaction among counselors was simmering, and senior staff members called an emergency meeting that deteriorated into angry shouting.
  — New York Times, 24 July 2021
• However, this union deteriorated into a constant internal battle that led in part to El Mayo’s arrest in the United States.
  — Sol Amaya, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
• Inside the arena, dead footing deteriorated into a hard, uneven surface, creating a dangerous landscape for horses and riders, while countless rows of broken sprinklers left the surrounding fields dry and brittle.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2025
• Years later, comfortable familiarity has deteriorated into contempt and the couple has decided to divorce.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
• Their whirlwind political alliance, however, quickly frayed and deteriorated into a bitter feud in an Asian democracy that has long been hamstrung by clashing political clans.
  — arkansasonline.com, 13 Feb. 2025
• The traffic stop deteriorated into violence over 15 minutes, becoming a struggle between West and officers trying to take him into custody over what police said was cocaine found in his sock.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2024
• But a decade after the first few videos were posted on YouTube, what started as an innocent genre meant to convey excitement has deteriorated into a toxic culture that promotes overshopping and overspending.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Nov. 2022
• When Curtis moved to Little Rock in 1987, he was dismayed to see the condition of the house had deteriorated into a hovel for drug addicts and prostitutes.
  — Dwain Hebda, Arkansas Online, 16 Jan. 2023
• The elites of the previous generation had asserted that descendants of the Aztec, Maya and other civilizations deteriorated into poverty and abandon.
  — Merilee Grindle, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• The Beijing-Washington relationship has deteriorated into something akin to a new Cold War, setting up a dangerous rivalry that could damage both countries, and the world.
  — L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2023
• The 200-year-old building deteriorated into disrepair and was given over to the municipality after its previous owners died, the newspaper reported.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• This idea has continued to animate most Labor Day celebrations although, except in a few cities, the day has deteriorated into just another holiday, offering an extended weekend for greater recreation.
  — Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Sep. 2020
• The West Side, once dominated by a bustling port, deteriorated into industrial eyesores and homeless camps before a revitalization this century converted much of it into magnificent parkland.
  — CNN, 25 May 2021
• Under Hugo Chávez, and more sharply under his successor Maduro, the relationship deteriorated into open hostility, shaped by the political stances of the Chavista regime and American sanctions and pressure.
  — Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
• Neither Harris nor Lee provided details or specifics on how their countries would address the situation in Myanmar, which has deteriorated into a major humanitarian crisis that could destabilize the region, already wrecked by the pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2021
• Because of this, previous attempts to digitize mathematical results (such as a 1994 project called the QED Manifesto) quickly deteriorated into arguments about which definitions and frameworks to use.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026