Guy Standing

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is also bringing about disruptive change that is intensifying insecurity and may indeed lead to large-scale labor displacement.

English Actor

P. J. O'Rourke

Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

American Comedian

Shimon Peres

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

Israeli Statesman

John Delaney

Repealing the estate tax won't create jobs, it won't boost GDP, and it won't add efficiency to the market. Instead, repealing the estate tax will simply add to the debt, hurt our ability to build a stronger economy and worsen economic inequality.

American Politician

Franklin Raines

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

American Businessman

Pete Sessions

As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?

Omar Bongo

Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

Gabonese Statesman

Jacques Delors

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

French Economist

Paul Dano

Everything you do, every experience that you have, enlightens you a little bit or worsens you.

American Actor

Steven Pinker

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

Canadian Scientist

Can describe non-physical things like relationships or economies worsening.

Figurative Use

Worsening can be gradual, not instant, and continue to decline over time.

Not Always Fast

The word is neutral; the negativity comes from what is worsening.

Neutral Tone

Emphasizes that a problem is escalating, often used in news or reports.

Negative Escalation

Used to suggest that measures taken have not worked or that new actions are needed.

Implications for Action

Can hint at an underlying cause without explicitly mentioning it.

Cause and Effect

 some doctors prescribe medication to aid sleep, but there aren’t reliable medications that help in all cases. And over-the-counter sleeping pills can be highly addictive, leading to withdrawal that worsens symptoms. But before seeking any treatment, make sure your sleeplessness is actually due to insomnia.

What causes insomnia? -...

 that the free drugs that she's entitled to have run out, because they forgot to reorder them on time. So now, she rushes to the private medical center, and as she's rushing there, looking at her daughter's condition worsening with every passing hour, she can't help but wonder

How motivation can fix...

 doctor or nurse practitioner or whoever and you know as the months have gone on and you know we've been dealing with this as a country as a world you know for these past few months in emergency rooms in your emergency room how have you seen the situation change or worsen

How health workers are...

 A series of recent clinical studies suggest that among patients who haven't yet developed Alzheimer's disease, worsening sleep quality and sleep duration are associated with a greater amount of amyloid-beta building up in the brain, and while it's important to point out

One more reason to get a...

 "Source not clear. Probably tendons were inflamed," he said. And he prescribed a boot and some physical therapy. But the pain worsened, and it spread to my hip and my back. I sought out more medical specialists, even holistic practitioners, all with different theories,

The Bias behind Your...

 For example, my colleagues and I found that we could slow down the rate of warming by as much as 30 percent before mid-century. This would help communities and ecosystems adapt to a changing climate and hit the brakes on worsening extreme events,

Ilissa Ocko: The fastest...

 As the climate crisis worsens, too many people are swinging from denial straight to despair. But we should not lose hope. Humanity has enormous resources under its command, and by applying them wisely, we can still prevent ecological cataclysm.

Yuval Noah Harari: The...

 to fix those problems you can't rightly it's not their responsibility it is my responsibility I have to take care of my own problems if they help that's good but that is not my expectation these worsening indices of health care

Making high quality...

 their natural event we have droughts they're gonna happen but what happens with water management is that as we're capturing river flow we worsen those natural droughts we make the low flows lower we make the duration longer

What Will Happen If the...

 At first, penguins with chicks circulate on the outside, avoiding the pressure within. As the weather worsens, they'll all have to look for a place to tuck in.

Worsen

To make or become worse.

Often appears as...

To further damage, especially a situation or condition.

Often appears as...

Figurative Use

Not Always Fast

Neutral Tone

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