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Perhaps if Short weren’t associated with a detective noir masterpiece, she would never have become a useful metaphor for the corruption and rot associated with Hollywood and Los Angeles, or an eternal enigma.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Spoiled vegetables rot in corners, while food counters show signs of pest infestation.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

"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

I can smell an excellent meal being prepared, but it doesn’t block out the odors of mildew and rot.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

"I figure it'll probably disintegrate and probably nobody will ever hear it, that's what bothers me... if it rots in there before they open it."

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Yet, huge amounts of food – on average in the U.S., as much as 40% of it – rots before being eaten.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

The allegory is a tad thick: Humanity rots inside the gates, dignity stands tall outside.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting the region’s prized coastlines, repelling holidaymakers with the pungent stench emitted as it rots.

From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024

How many years would it take before her jump rope rots and disappears?

From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The building was storing millions of pounds of fresh and frozen food such as meat, bread and seafood that rotted after the blaze, prompting complaints, citations and lawsuits over foul odors and pests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The harvester is out in this Somerset orchard, but the apples have rotted before they ripened, because of the drought.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

But they hit their stride with 2022’s “The Death of Peace of Mind,” which melded a Weeknd-worthy R&B falsetto with rotted, churning guitars and tasteful electronics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

The fire’s aftermath was just as bad, with cleanup crews having to contend with removing 89 million pounds of thawing, rotting meat, debris and other material.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

A rotting carpet of familiar fan-shaped leaves soon surrounded the tree, a sight so alarming Jung and her neighbours formed a crew of amateur detectives to solve the mystery: what was ailing their hardy ginkgo?

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Clare froze, a head of rotting cabbage clutched in his paws.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman