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How to use the word deteriorates in a Sentence?

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The elephant in the room is that we wait until the brain deteriorates to the point of dysfunction before we treat this disease, that's like saying wait until you lose half of the beta cells in your pancreas before we diagnose diabetes.

Rudy Tanzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Justice and abuse: Justice makes life thrive while abuse deteriorates and destroys it.

Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

If the economic situation deteriorates, they will no doubt be reassessing their portfolios and exposures.

Ferdia Byrne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Animal health and human health and environmental health are so linked, if one deteriorates then the rest do, too.

Tracey Goldstein

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We believe that corporate credit is fundamentally weak and could overshoot to the downside if the economy deteriorates.

Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's one of the things that the Chairman( of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and I have talked quite a bit about and I'm continuing conversations. I am going to work very closely with the new acting secretary( of the Department of Homeland Security), what I would say is as the situation there deteriorates, it's pretty elastic in terms of demand on us, so I would expect shortly here to have another request for assistance.

Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As the macroeconomic environment deteriorates - and it will deteriorate as that is an unavoidable consquence of falling foreign direct investment and tourism - you will see more reluctance to invest in Turkish securities.

Cristian Maggio

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If you find them in a shockable heart rhythm then most of the time you can reset the heart and get a pulse back. If you wait too long, the chance of finding that rhythm deteriorates.

Ian Drennan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sentiment is so bad in some corners of the market that transportation stocks can't even rally while one of their main costs deteriorates. It's rare to see new lows in transportation stocks and oil at the same time.

Jason Goepfert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Stop lying. Stop inciting, if the situation deteriorates as a result of this incitement ... you will bear responsibility.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Everest is a mountain of extremes, at altitude, the body deteriorates on a certain level.

Jon Kedrowski

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They were aware of the conditions I was being held in at the time. I think they should at least pay my medical expenses. That's not much to ask for, I think. the body deteriorates over five and a half years, even without the added torture, such as stress positions, being beaten, etc..

David Hicks

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The body deteriorates over five and a half years, even without the added torture, such as stress positions, being beaten, etc..

David Hicks

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Primo Levi

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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