decay

In 1993, he coordinated businessman Richard Riordan’s successful campaign for Los Angeles mayor by targeting homeowners’ anxieties about unemployment, crime and other symptoms of urban decay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Cuban-Americans seeking their old properties often find the buildings in decay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

But when a 2024 reserve study and subsequent inspections revealed extensive structural decay, the association was faced with a $600,000 repair bill, according to a report from the Foundation for Community Association Research.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

The machinery of government itself has been left to decay.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Holmes’s contribution was to measure the decay rate of uranium into lead to calculate the age of rocks, and thus–he hoped–of the Earth.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

It contains radium that decays into radon gas, which is radioactive and can cause cancer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

“But the U.S. Constitution is neither bone nor stone. It is an explosion of ideas. Parchment decays and ink fades, but ideas endure; they also change.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Keeping the truth from someone might not be outright dishonesty, but it’s a rot that decays the same way, just festering at a slower pace.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

In short, it's a scenario in which the universe continues to both expand and cool - while everything within it dies off, decays, and fades away.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2024

In order to do harm, a radioactive isotope must be in or on the body when it decays.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The decayed plant turns black and is caught in a sieve, allowing the seeds to fall to the bottom of the catching tub.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Remote and hybrid work used to be a privilege, but its benefits over in-person work have decayed across the board,” Chris Martin, senior economist at Glassdoor, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026

In “Vaccine Flag,” a vertical banner arcs gracefully across a soft gradient of L.A. haze, but the banner’s fabric is so tattered and decayed that its advertisement for vaccines is barely legible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

Wage growth has decayed, and persistently elevated inflation is straining personal budgets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

If that neutron decayed into a proton, then the 2.3-day activity must be element 93, which had never been seen.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Corpse flowers bloom for just 24 to 48 hours, and once opened, they reek of gym socks, rotten eggs and decaying flesh … or, well, a corpse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The ornate stone balconies of the decaying colonial townhouses jutting above your head are liable to collapse at any moment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

"Millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk on the surface of the Earth."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

But the pansexual Lestat de Lioncourt transformed them into rebellious, romantic figures, the stuff of adolescent FOMO, as opposed to decaying ghouls.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

I dig a beetle larva out of a decaying log and put it on a thornbush fishhook I made and tied to a fine cord of deer tendon.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George