rot
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"Turn off that TV, it'll rot your brain!" has been repeated in households for generations.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Leftover ingredients don’t have to rot in your fridge, they’re opportunities to get creative and expand your kitchen prowess.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
As he said in 1857, what was the point of celebrating the Fourth if the Declaration was now treated as “mere rubbish—old wadding left to rot on the battlefield”?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
They haven’t sniffed the playoffs since while undergoing seemingly constant leadership changes that have allowed their culture to slowly rot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
So we’d be leaving half, at least half, behind to rot.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
The analysts at SentimenTrader call it a “Weekend at Bernie’s” rally, “propped up almost entirely by flows into a handful of mega-cap tech and semiconductor leaders, while the broader market rots beneath the surface.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Yet while soft tissue usually rots away, the lack of oxygen caused by the manner of the shark's death and more mud landing on top preserved the fish.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The saying goes that the fish rots from the head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
The great Viserys rots into shreds of his former self.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025
Some fruit rots while still containing perfectly good seeds, and gets thrown out uneaten into the garbage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In the wild, the larvae live in small holes that have rotted into old pine trees.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
"We're able to intercept food that would have otherwise rotted in fields or not be used and make it have a social impact."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Her contorted expression is rotted by anguish, as though life’s unbearable burdens have laid waste to their latest victim.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
Carcasses rotted in his studio as he waited for the muse to possess him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
He brushed away the trash and rotted bits of screening from the cover.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
"We call it rotting out," says Fererro, now wearing a white laboratory coat as he adds handfuls of seagrass to the Calshot tank.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
They’re the stench of smoke and soot and chlorine, and of burning, rotting, rat-besieged food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was the first public town hall about the Lineage warehouse fire, which burned for nearly a week and left 85 million pounds of frozen food rotting across the street from residential neighborhoods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Hachadourian says some blooms smell like dog feces and others like rotting flesh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Clare froze, a head of rotting cabbage clutched in his paws.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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