decrepit
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When the BBC visited in November, workers were busy knocking down a decrepit old barn, one of many that dot the Appalachian landscape.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
Now, it needs to spend more again on the military and shore up crumbling infrastructure, from potholed roads to a decrepit rail system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
In the end, the Mobutu era left few visible traces behind: a handful of palaces and monuments to the late dictator lie decrepit, while virtually no infrastructure from his time survives to this day.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
For that offense, she was grabbed off the street by a half-dozen plainclothes federal agents and detained for weeks in a decrepit ICE facility, thousands of miles away.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025
They soon arrived at a decrepit apartment building across from the graveyard.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
Vocabulary lists containing decrepit
The Hunger Games
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