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Recent Examples of degradation That prospect creates tremendous angst among activists who worry about the degradation of storage canisters over time. Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025 As originally reported by Universe Today’s Evan Gough, JunoCam began showing signs of degradation during its 47th orbit around Jupiter, and by the 56th orbit, practically every image that was acquired with JunoCam showed signs of corruption. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Sep. 2025 Nakagin itself fared well into the ’80s, but material degradation began to take its toll. Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2025 The Great Lakes Legacy Act — which aims to address areas of concern in the basin where longtime industrial contamination has caused environmental degradation — has funded 34 remediation projects across the region since 2004, removing or capping almost 7 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment. Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for degradation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for degradation
Noun
  • Biglari was particularly critical of the company’s store-level deterioration.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • While StubHub stock could rise at the IPO – especially if the offering is oversubscribed – consumer backlash, regulatory pressure, competitive threats, and profitability deterioration make $STUB particularly risky.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The tech giant has built in a feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement, which is designed to stop attacks targeting memory corruption bugs, often exploited by spyware developers and phone forensic tools used by law enforcement, TechCrunch reports.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The rise is coupled with major political shifts in the country following the election of President Bernardo Arévalo, who vowed to fight corruption, tackle inequality, and rectify the discrimination against Indigenous Peoples after years of democratic erosion and corruption.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Following on from its second-quarter results, the company maintained its full-year sales growth outlook of a low single-digit year-over-year decline.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, Western Sizzlin had long been in a period of decline, having filed for bankruptcy in 1992.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On those three dates, variations in the moon's position relative to Earth's equator — particularly its declination — can influence tidal forces that subtly affect Earth's rotation rate.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Where corporate criminal investigations resolve without filing any criminal charges (through a declination or deferred prosecution agreement), companies should expect victims to still voice their views loudly to the Justice Department and beyond.
    Lisa Zornberg, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025

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“Degradation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/degradation. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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