John de Lancie

War of the Worlds' was a goof delivered as news bulletins. It was the beginning of an erosion that now has us in trouble. We just don't know where to get the truth. It was a piece made 56 years ago with all good intentions that still abused the public's trust. It was that little marble, that little push, and now no one trusts the media.

American Actor

Dinesh D'Souza

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

Indian Author

Wangari Maathai

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

Kenyan Activist

Vivek Murthy

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

American Public Servant

Mikhail Gorbachev

I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

Statesman

John Dickerson

If Michael Flynn lost his job because of a gradual erosion of trust, shouldn't the easy and frequent production of official statements that are so many connecting flights from the truth also be concerning?

American Journalist

Frans van Houten

Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will actually gain a better margin realization.

Dutch Businessman

Pratibha Patil

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Indian Politician

Julian Lennon

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?

English Musician

Fred Silverman

The only way to stop the erosion in network television is to come up with shows that are very popular.

American Producer

Erosion in this context is always caused by natural forces, not human activities.

Natural Causes

Erosion refers to a slow process; it doesn't happen overnight.

Gradual Change

Erosion often implies harmful effects on the environment.

Negative Impact

Here, erosion is used metaphorically to describe a decline in abstract concepts.

Figurative Use

This definition doesn't refer to a physical process but to intangible things.

Not Physical

Erosion in this sense often affects society or relationships widely and deeply.

Broader Impact

This type of erosion is specific to medicine and involves body tissues.

Medical Specific

Medical erosion is due to illness or harm, not natural body processes.

Disease or Injury

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 dissolving rocks or breaking them down in a process known as weathering. Water moving downhill carries the weathered material and erodes the landscape, carving out deep valleys and jagged peaks. This balance between uplift and erosion gives a mountain its shape.

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 but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. I couldn't justify our actions -- especially our cruel practice of protesting funerals and celebrating human tragedy. These shifts in my perspective contributed to a larger erosion of trust in my church,

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 but we can't explain the decline in death sentences and the affinity for life without the possibility of parole by an erosion of support for the death penalty, because people still support the death penalty. What's happened to cause this phenomenon?

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 these ancient cars formations have been sculpted by wind and water and millions of years of erosion into these beautiful natural sculptures as a rock climber you look at these rock formations and you can't help but be inspired for me it's

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 These are little wells. And inside these wells, then microbial communities begin to form. And so the spongy soil not only resists erosion, but sets up a microbial universe that gives rise to a plurality of other organisms.

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 and the government has repeatedly delayed projects to build concrete embankments that would prevent further erosion. In other parts of the world, people couldn’t move inland even if they wanted to.

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 intensive agricultural production systems, overgrazing, excessive application of agricultural chemicals, erosion and similar things. Half of the world's soils are currently considered degraded.

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 These fish play a large part in the erosion of the reef. The rock and coral they swallow emerges later as a fine sand.