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- noun Plural form of
atrophy .
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Examples
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Can brain atrophies among the elderly lead to unintended racist views?
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Can brain atrophies among the elderly lead to unintended racist views?
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With each day of unemployment, people's belief in themselves atrophies, causing them to question how capable they are of surmounting this immense hurdle.
Dr. Jim Taylor: The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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As that capability atrophies, it is very hard to reconstitute and get it back.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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With each day of unemployment, people's belief in themselves atrophies, causing them to question how capable they are of surmounting this immense hurdle.
Dr. Jim Taylor: The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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With each day of unemployment, people's belief in themselves atrophies, causing them to question how capable they are of surmounting this immense hurdle.
Dr. Jim Taylor: The Psychic Toll of the Great Recession Dr. Jim Taylor 2010
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As that capability atrophies, it is very hard to reconstitute and get it back.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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As that capability atrophies, it is very hard to reconstitute and get it back.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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Eventually, as the central state atrophies, regional associations and local bodies are forced to take over functions previously handled by central bodies, in the process forming the skeleton of new, smaller states.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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As that capability atrophies, it is very hard to reconstitute and get it back.
Ian Fletcher: Curtains for the U.S. Military Industrial Base? Ian Fletcher 2011
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