wither

Example Sentences

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We do need to eliminate poverty for older Americans, but the answer lies in strengthening SSI, which has been allowed to wither on the vine.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

For Bienvenu, the reliance on AI in the creative process is dangerous because it risks allowing the imagination to wither.

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

But it would have been wrong to think support for independence would wither away.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Connections between regions wither and the brain increasingly relies on individual regions and a small number of highly-used interregional pathways.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

At some point the balloon would shrivel and wither, getting smaller and smaller, and then eventually disappear as a point—the singularity at the beginning of time and space.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife