decrepit
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They loaded salvageable sofas and home appliances onto decrepit blue pickup trucks in the unmistakable 1960s design of local brand Zamyad.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
Cuba produces about 40,000 barrels a day of sulfur- and metals-laden heavy crude that feeds the country’s decrepit power plants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
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.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
She climbed the stairs like an old, decrepit woman, clinging to the banister and pulling herself up step by step.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary lists containing decrepit
The Hunger Games
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The Fault in Our Stars
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