dilapidation
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The group also heard significant concerns about financial investment in the service and the negative impact on infrastructure - including the dilapidation of the police estate in some areas and the quality of technology.
From BBC • May 23, 2023
“Their compassion means that in certain places, the cycle of dilapidation continues. But coming down hard wouldn’t help either.”
From Slate • Jul. 11, 2022
You wouldn’t choose to wear the scent of dilapidation or urban decline or gentrification or environmental racism.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2022
Today, the neat premises of Havana’s Fine Arts Museum contrast with the MACC’s dilapidation.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2022
He began to cultivate his corpulence and general physical dilapidation.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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