Therefore, we have a group of recommendations that are designed to prevent that, that backsliding or atrophy of energy and zeal, and those are the second group of recommendations that we call continuing to fly.

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But he is concerned about letting his skills atrophy or putting a big gap between jobs on his resume.

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Does the squeeze of manufacturing represent dangerous atrophy or natural adjustment?

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Researchers found that higher levels of physical activity were associated with less brain atrophy, or shrinkage, and less brain damage.

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We are also rapidly dismantling or otherwise allowing to atrophy the industrial infrastructure and skilled workforce that supports our nuclear deterrent.

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Arya had spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a progressive and fatal disease in which the nerves that control the muscles slowly waste away.

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And yet the AKP may not be entirely immune to what pundits refer to as "the 10-year rule", or the sort of atrophy which affects governments as they grow old.

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Now, he said, Congress needs to at least maintain such funding to prevent stagnation or, even worse, atrophy.

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