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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.

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It is so decrepit that it has served as a post-apocalyptic setting for music videos by stars such as Drake, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.

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The building is decrepit, with peeling paint, rusted pipes, and crumbling toilets in each cramped cell.

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The government has referred to the ships as being "decrepit and dangerous" as well as being responsible for "reckless seafaring".

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My kids became middle-aged before I became decrepit.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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