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decay

[dih-key] / dɪˈkeɪ /




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“But we found little niche and cool brands,” like Stila and Urban Decay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Decay is a biological process and without water, biology can’t work.

From National Geographic • Aug. 7, 2023

Major beauty brands Urban Decay, Revolution and Inglot are selling make-up in the UK containing "forever chemicals", BBC News has found.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2023

Decay and neglect are the constant themes, and the descriptions are gorgeous.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

Decay to what owing, 323.Its famous Tun, 324.Heilbron,

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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