deliquescence

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“Picasso 1932” is as much her show as his, and the young Frenchwoman, lithe, athletic, untroubled, appears again and again in uncanny states of bodily deliquescence.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2018

If this is related to deliquescence from the atmosphere, we should see a difference in brightness and darkness, with time of day.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2017

The process, known as deliquescence, is seen in the Atacama desert, where the resulting damp patches are the only known place for microbes to live.

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2015

It was an industry in a state of deliquescence, and Varda saw rightly that, if Hollywood were to become solid again, it would do so in open acknowledgment of and confrontation with its own past.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2015

The few fishermen's huts along the shore were built of stones taken from the ruin, and roofed in with sodden beams and timbers in the last stages of deliquescence.

From A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories by Harte, Bret