as in corrosion
a gradual weakening, loss, or destruction
the erosion of the banks along the river worries flood experts
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Recent Examples of erosion
Yet many of its great features have been eviscerated -- not by bouts of insurrection or spasms of tyranny, but by erosion, innovation, and institutional decay.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
The money also will help more farmers in the basin adopt those practices, like planting crops that cover the ground year-round to catch rain, and reducing tillage, which stirs up the soil and accelerates erosion.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
—Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
State of play: Mayor Esther Sanchez, a Democrat and the city's first woman and Latina mayor, is running for re-election in a city where housing costs, homelessness and beach erosion are top concerns.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
The money also will help more farmers in the basin adopt those practices, like planting crops that cover the ground year-round to catch rain, and reducing tillage, which stirs up the soil and accelerates erosion.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 23 Oct. 2024
In recent decades, scientists have warned that industrial meat production, and beef in particular, fuels climate change and leads to deforestation, soil erosion, species extinction, ocean dead zones and high levels of methane emissions.
—Hannah Cutting-Jones, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
State of play: Mayor Esther Sanchez, a Democrat and the city's first woman and Latina mayor, is running for re-election in a city where housing costs, homelessness and beach erosion are top concerns.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Erosion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/erosion. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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