How to Use devolution in a Sentence

devolution

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  • After Fielder’s character gets cursed in the first episode, the devolution of their relationship plays out throughout the series.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • As a part of the bra’s devolution, a dude gets credited with creating the padded bra back in the 1940s.
    — Katti Gray, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Their whole idea of devolution is a form of late-’70s punk-era protest, no less than what Buffalo Springfield was singing about in the ’60s.
    — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Things like the core devolution of Medicaid to the states, that’s going to happen?
    — WSJ, 8 May 2017
  • Such were the devolutions and betrayals in those days, and retrogressions to the ways of shame.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • Over the last two decades, England has failed to receive a level of devolution comparable to the rest of the UK.
    — Gareth Evans, Quartz, 28 June 2019
  • Much of Season 4, the strongest in the series, quietly traced the painful devolution of their trust.
    — The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The Yeltsin years had been a period of great devolution of power.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Gateshead refused to join a devolution project centred around Newcastle, on the other side of the Tyne.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • This devolution of our attempt to be the Greatest Country in the World has been weighty on my usually buoyant hope.
    — Marina Gomberg, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
  • Some crabs have devolved in key ways, while others have re-evolved when that devolution did not, perhaps, prove fruitful enough.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Twenty-five years on, that agreement, known as devolution, faces its stiffest challenge yet.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • We should be upset by Zac’s villainous devolution and torn by who might be the better leader.
    — Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021
  • But that still leaves unresolved issues in the north and east: genuine devolution; justice for war crimes; and deep social and economic scars from the war.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The group claims the legislation calls for the devolution of federal land control.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 6 Jan. 2016
  • This should involve power-sharing in Damascus, and the devolution of power to the provinces.
    — The Economist, 30 June 2018
  • With devolution now in its 20th year, much has changed in the UK’s internal architecture.
    — Gareth Evans, Quartz, 28 June 2019
  • Even in this context, Seattle’s devolution is odd for two reasons.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2018
  • But the question of independence, or at the very least devolution of power, remained of interest to Scots.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Many of the Party’s senior figures have been colleagues since devolution brought fresh powers to the Scottish government, in the late nineteen-nineties.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • The devolution of Tom Sandoval from heel to arch-villain is one of the more compelling arcs in the history of reality television.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • The problems that plague the current game, the scourges that Epstein intends to target, have worsened over the past five seasons, and nowhere is that devolution more evident than at Target Field.
    — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Yet, though much of Britain’s response to the pandemic has been poor, devolution has become less dysfunctional under the stress.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • This booster shot of federalism could become the greatest devolution of federal power to the states in the modern era.
    — WSJ, 29 June 2017
  • The moment is therefore ripe for a transition to democracy and a devolution of power to the regional levels.
    — Garry Kasparov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Lip reading perhaps marks a new era, or devolution, in celebrity culture.
    — Steven Kurutz, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • This devolution is due in no small part to developers like the young-ish Donald Trump, who figures in Lipstye’s plot as a malevolent off-screen presence.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Corbijn hints at this devolution in the opening shot of 76-year-old Powell carrying a Hipgnosis poster on his back.
    — Armond White, National Review, 23 June 2023
  • Instead, in a devolution of unprecedented scale, a smaller amount of health-care money would be reshuffled around the country as block grants for much of the coming decade, with states having great freedom on how to spend it.
    — Author: Amy Goldstein, Juliet Eilperin, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In 2016, a devolution deal with the government created nine new regional power centers, led by metro mayors.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023

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