withered
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For starters, the traffic model most of these companies relied on has withered away.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
In some sections of the northern route through the strait—the widest and most suitable for large carriers—the season length for ships like the Nunalik has withered to 10-15 weeks, from 20-25 weeks two decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
It’s a marked improvement from 2024, when a record dry streak over the fall and winter left vegetation withered and primed to burn.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2025
“The Mamdani momentum withered in the deserts of southern Arizona on Tuesday night,” Jack Healy, the Times’ national correspondent, wrote.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2025
“Then go into that opposite room,” said she, pointing at the door behind me with her withered hand, “and wait there till I come.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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