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
Here and throughout his work, contradictions between vitality and decrepitude, nature and artifice, beauty and the grotesque don’t resolve in neutralizing harmony, but instead thrum on with generative friction.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2023
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
Her somewhat sad and depressive life is rendered with fine touches, the decrepitude of the home standing in for her current condition.
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 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
Vocabulary lists containing decrepitude
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