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
Everything the man is touching nowadays turns into gold for him and rot for the rest of us, a curse any smart person would avoid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
"Any transport delay can risk ruining the batch. If it takes longer than 24 hours, the internal sugars begin to rot and ferment unpredictably, destroying the delicate flavour profile needed for premium spirits," says Dhariwal.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The air smelled of sea and flowers, but as they grew closer, there was another note to it—a scent of rot.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
And just as tobacco riddles the lungs, Amazon, one could argue in their preachiest moment, rots the soul.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025
During the rainy season, Joey and the other patients huddle in the corners of the overcrowded cabins to escape the water, which pools on the floor and rots the wood.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Parts were found to have rotted away from damp and the sheets were placed between sheets of glass in a bid to preserve them.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The structure, discovered in the village of Bulford, was a much more simple construction made up of just two wooden posts, which have long since rotted away.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Barerra Valencia had to throw out a bunch of meat because it had rotted during the days the store was closed, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
“Why haven’t these clothes all rotted away long ago?” asked Polly.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
The village of Dhunge, once home to roughly 150 families, now lies in ruins, reduced to a swampy expanse with an ominous rotting stench -- one of dozens of settlements obliterated by the Himalayan floods.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
India’s dysfunctional urbanization provides an endless stream of videos: mounds of rotting garbage, trains overflowing with commuters, half-drowned school buses on flooded roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Many trees have produced no fruit at all, and others have dropped their fruit early, rotting before they ripened.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies attracted to rotting meat stored at the facility have tormented neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Drugged with the aroma of rotting wood, he lost consciousness.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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