Atrophied

Building industrial muscle means that the Pentagon needs to rebuild long-atrophied bureaucratic muscle, too.

Imagine children growing up with such technology, removed from the normal consequences of life, their thinking atrophied by AI superpower, never having experienced the difficulty and beauty of normal human relationships.

Our educational system today only sharpens the head to near-pin end quality and this is even rare but it also makes the possessor’s limb atrophied by long disuse.

In an era of scientific, technical, and industrial progress our moral imaginations have atrophied.

The problem is what American artillery has atrophied, Russia’s has not.

As in October, democracy under Johnson had atrophied.

The Decision Making Section of my brain seems to have atrophied because I am no longer able to go into a store and make a purchase.

We cudgel textbook theories while issues that should be addressed continued to be atrophied; either deliberately or inadvertently.

Once these eroded, people’s democratic interest atrophied.

Our ability to do anything else, only exercised in short bursts, is like a muscle that has atrophied.

With nearly 7 million existing jobs unfilled and the pipeline for skilled trades atrophied, states likely will focus more on apprenticeships and workforce training.

Dolphins are not thought to have a good sense of taste, as their taste buds are atrophied or missing altogether.

In an interview after arriving in New York, Kesey is quoted as saying, "The sense of communication in this country has damn near atrophied.

They were a young couple, physically passionate, "not monsters but recognisable human beings," Michael Billington, cited by Gay (2002, 169) but their relationship atrophied as the action progressed.

While the tourism and industrial fishing industries were on a roll in the late 1990s, the traditional plantation economy atrophied.