rot
Example Sentences
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Rot and decay are inevitable, and Kathleen Ryan confronts them head-on in “Souvenir,” a solo exhibition at Karma.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
Mr Reynolds said the money he raises through his fundraising page will go towards the Alabama Rot Research Fund, with the aim of guiding treatment and prevention strategies, and ultimately finding a cure.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024
Rot and death would spread through their venerable trunks and crumple their limbs — but their roots and stumps, cradled by the continent’s most ancient mountains, lived on in the sandy, acidic Appalachian soil.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023
This is the ultimate result of the tech ecosystem’s obsession with growth—something I call the Rot Economy.
From Scientific American • Oct. 17, 2023
Rot and damp and hopelessness and hunger and fear and anger twisted up in a clamp around my ribcage.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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"When Cultures Meet"
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