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
Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 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
Another important reason for the growing ranks of senior athletes is a shift in the mindset of older Americans, who no longer see aging as a sadly inevitable slide into decline and decrepitude.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022
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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