How to Use devolution in a Sentence

devolution

noun

• Twenty-five years on, that agreement, known as devolution, faces its stiffest challenge yet.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
• The Yeltsin years had been a period of great devolution of power.
  — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Some crabs have devolved in key ways, while others have re-evolved when that devolution did not, perhaps, prove fruitful enough.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
• Lip reading perhaps marks a new era, or devolution, in celebrity culture.
  — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• Such were the devolutions and betrayals in those days, and retrogressions to the ways of shame.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• Even in this context, Seattle’s devolution is odd for two reasons.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
• Things like the core devolution of Medicaid to the states, that’s going to happen?
  — WSJ, 8 May 2017
• We should be upset by Zac’s villainous devolution and torn by who might be the better leader.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
• Maybe the game won't sync across platforms, and the impedance of having to start all over will be enough to prevent notable devolution.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
• Schwarzenegger plays a dad coping with his daughter's devolution into a brain-eating zombie.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 30 June 2015
• The group claims the legislation calls for the devolution of federal land control.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2016
• As a part of the bra’s devolution, a dude gets credited with creating the padded bra back in the 1940s.
  — Katti Gray, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• Much of Season 4, the strongest in the series, quietly traced the painful devolution of their trust.
  — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Gateshead refused to join a devolution project centred around Newcastle, on the other side of the Tyne.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Past attempts at versions of devolution in England have likewise failed to rouse excitement.
  — Ian King, CNBC, 8 July 2026
• The devolution from red pill to black pill is an illustration of the strange metastasis of online content, which tends to always grow darker.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• Nystrom sees it as a slow but sure devolution of reverence for the old Confederacy.
  — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 30 July 2017
• This booster shot of federalism could become the greatest devolution of federal power to the states in the modern era.
  — WSJ, 29 June 2017
• This should involve power-sharing in Damascus, and the devolution of power to the provinces.
  — The Economist, 30 June 2018
• The moment is therefore ripe for a transition to democracy and a devolution of power to the regional levels.
  — Garry Kasparov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2023
• Today few people believe that the end of devolution could result in a return to previous levels of violence.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• The devolution of the traditional life style coincided with a surge in social problems.
  — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• But the question of independence, or at the very least devolution of power, remained of interest to Scots.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
• This devolution of our attempt to be the Greatest Country in the World has been weighty on my usually buoyant hope.
  — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
• Yet, though much of Britain’s response to the pandemic has been poor, devolution has become less dysfunctional under the stress.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• Over the last two decades, England has failed to receive a level of devolution comparable to the rest of the UK.
  — Gareth Evans, Quartz, 28 June 2019
• Burnham argues Greater Manchester, which has been granted more power in the last decade and achieved greater growth, is a case study in how devolution can work.
  — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 29 June 2026
• With devolution now in its 20th year, much has changed in the UK’s internal architecture.
  — Gareth Evans, Quartz, 28 June 2019
• Their whole idea of devolution is a form of late-’70s punk-era protest, no less than what Buffalo Springfield was singing about in the ’60s.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
• After Fielder’s character gets cursed in the first episode, the devolution of their relationship plays out throughout the series.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024