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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'devolved into' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a situation in which something, usually an activity, progresses or changes gradually into something else, often worse. For example, "The conversation quickly devolved into an argument."
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It had devolved into name-calling.
Yesterday's fight devolved into angry hashtaggery.
The world has devolved into apocalypse.
By the 1970s TriBeCa had devolved into leftover industrial buildings.
They had devolved into dummies, and Norquist was their ventriloquist.
Interpretations of the paper quickly devolved into caricatures.
At times, the inspection tours devolved into obvious political theatre.
In lesser hands, this might have devolved into cliché.
Many wondered if his showiness had devolved into self-absorption.
Thomas Jefferson's utopia devolved into Ted Cruz's dystopia.
But it soon devolved into something more sinister.
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