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
His Long looks so confused that some piece of it has to be an act — a way to get the gang to relax — a costume of decrepitude.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
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
Nor do you have to be a man, though Letts now seems to be our leading contender for bard of male moral decrepitude.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021
Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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