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Face our fear and root it out, even if it means excavating the hideous rot of actual history?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

The word "rot" is clearly an exaggeration, but new research suggests that heavy television viewing may still have meaningful consequences for brain health.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 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

I hold my breath as the stench of rotting trash mixes with smoke and pulverized concrete, smashed-up sewers and rot.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

"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

She believes some online video content in particular "rots children's brains", so they are not allowed access to that.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025

And just as tobacco riddles the lungs, Amazon, one could argue in their preachiest moment, rots the soul.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

You live, die, and rot, then something else lives, dies, and rots.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

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

"It's unripe, but it's already rotted before we've even started," he explains.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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

There were witches in the woods, they stole beauty from swans and then rotted from the inside.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

In Tanji, home to The Gambia's largest fish landing, the stench of rotting catch is becoming an issue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Lally said the weekend's fly-tipping was "one of the worst examples that we have come across", but it was not unusual to find discarded BBQs, beer cans and rotting food.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

A June 17 fire at cold storage operator Lineage’s 500,000-square-foot food warehouse left the community with noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies attracted to rotting meat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

Isn’t that part of what got her into this mess, to this place where she is weirdly and surreally standing alone on a high, rotting railway trestle on her eighteenth birthday?

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti