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Noun
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Take this eye cream—retinol, Indonesian ginger, and iris extract are an unexpected trio that prevent the degradation of and promote the creation of collagen, increase hyaluronic acid production, improve circulation, firm, and plump skin.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
14 Jan. 2026 -
But the ambiance impulse seems less about attention degradation than creating a magic circle around reading and deepening a sense of fantasy and escape.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
13 Jan. 2026
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But, in an interview given in October, 2001, Navarro attempted to fill, with what sounds like shamelessness, the gap between himself and his alter ego.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Ever since reforming their membership a few years back, the Globes have backed away from their particular brand of shamelessness and gotten a little bit hipper.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement This is not the first time that Milei, who rose to power in part with attacks on the venality of Argentina’s elite, has been tarred with corruption accusations.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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In that corner of the market, the debasement trade endured — less as a sweeping judgment on fiat, more as a focused bet on rates, policy and protection.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
29 Dec. 2025
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Investor demand has also been underpinned by debasement trade, as concerns over swelling debt loads drive a retreat from sovereign bonds and the currencies they are issued in.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Dec. 2025
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The State of Illinois and City of Chicago’s finances have been in a continuous downward spiral because of their unbalanced budgets, spending, profligacy, and inability — especially from Chicago — to deal with the staggering unfunded pension liabilities.—
Joe Sanders,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2026
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Gold’s record highs are primarily a function of a lack of faith in governments to restrain their fiscal profligacy.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
8 Dec. 2025
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These were both indicators of greater hardness and higher energy dissipation in the copper.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Notably, like the Navier-Stokes equations (and unlike the other two kinds of equations the researchers studied), the CCF equations describe fluids that have a dissipation property akin to viscosity.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
9 Jan. 2026
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This uncertainty, called mass–distance degeneracy, meant that earlier detections could not rule out heavier objects such as brown dwarfs.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Jan. 2026
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Crucially, white dwarfs support themselves against collapse through something called electron degeneracy pressure, in which a huge sea of free-floating electrons resists collapse because, according to quantum mechanics, electrons can never share the same state.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
24 Dec. 2025
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Nuriev, 41, was born in Russia amid the faded decadence of the czarist era and the rational architecture of communism.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
14 Jan. 2026
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The vocals are mechanical and the lyrics repetitive and tedious, the narrator choking on decadence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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