decrepit

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U.S. and Venezuelan oil experts say the law will likely benefit companies already in Venezuela, but won’t be enough to attract new foreign investments needed to revive the decrepit oil industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

When the BBC visited in November, workers were busy knocking down a decrepit old barn, one of many that dot the Appalachian landscape.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

In the end, the Mobutu era left few visible traces behind: a handful of palaces and monuments to the late dictator lie decrepit, while virtually no infrastructure from his time survives to this day.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

For that offense, she was grabbed off the street by a half-dozen plainclothes federal agents and detained for weeks in a decrepit ICE facility, thousands of miles away.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

He had examined the equipment of the other Amer-ican crews and found it heavy, shoddy, old, and decrepit.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown