decrepitude
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They asked: "How do we ethically justify forcing these bodies to continue to exist in decrepitude?"
From BBC • May 13, 2025
Not many contemporary actors could summon to the stage Gardner’s radiance and decrepitude simultaneously.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023
On Tuesday, one of the main buildings on the property was demolished, after a devastating fire delivered the killing blow following decades of decrepitude and abandonment.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2022
“Don’t you think it should cost less to be alive?” he bursts out at one point, seemingly at random, as if the decrepitude around him has stirred much larger anxieties.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
It was then that it occurred to her that her clumsiness was not the first victory of decrepitude and darkness but a sentence passed by time.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing decrepitude
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