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Six example sentences with atrophy, each labelled with its topic.
Muscles atrophy surprisingly fast in a cast, which is why therapists start gentle movement within days of the surgery.
Fitness
Skills atrophy when the tooling does everything, and half the team can no longer debug a build by hand.
Technology
Trade routes atrophy once a safer pass opens, and the towns along the old road empty within two generations.
History
Local industries atrophy once a region grows dependent on a single export, and the skills vanish with the workshops.
Economics
Party branches atrophy between elections, and by the next campaign nobody remembers who holds the keys to the office.
Politics
Sight-reading skills atrophy when a player learns everything by ear, and a new score becomes a slow struggle.
Music
Study atrophy until you keep it
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