withered
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Without that powerful backing, their trailblazer, along with DSA member Rae Huang, withered on their L.A. revolutionary vine.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
For starters, the traffic model most of these companies relied on has withered away.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
The Texas troubadour is celebrating not what’s withered and worn but authentic and real.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Tourism to the area has all but withered away, said Hussein Hamad, the caretaker of the archaeological pilgrimage site in Ezariya thought to be the site of Lazarus’ tomb.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
The withered gardens were a blight, and beggars lay as though dead, collecting coins on the hollows of their closed eyes, and there were altogether too many ruins.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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