as in deteriorated
to become worse or of less value
the Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded
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Those delaminations deteriorated between dive 80 and dive 88, its final dive, resulting in a local buckling failure that led to the implosion.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025 -
But then her condition deteriorated fast.—
Aishwarya S. Iyer,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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In the span of just two weeks, an extraordinary parade of top US officials has descended on Israel in a diplomatic blitz.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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The two suspects descended the ladder and all four escaped on two motorbikes, according to officials.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Passersby stared as billows of smoke rose into the air above the White House as part of the home shared by the United States president and his family crumbled to the ground.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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The brittle cornerstone of a decades-old player-development system suddenly crumbled, bringing the rest of the city game down with it.—
Luke Cyphers,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Another surprise was that, when Keys allowed volunteers to start eating again, their condition worsened.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Jerusalem Post reported that Angrest suffers from asthma, which worsened in the damp and humid tunnels.—
Rachel Wolf , Yonat Friling,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski previously declined to comment on whether King is linked to the alleged harassing phone calls.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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By Monday, the storm had degenerated in to remnants which were located about 615 miles west of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, with no threat to land, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Retrograded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/retrograded. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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