fester
Example Sentences
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Listen to your instincts, says human-resources consultant Paul Wolfe, because workplace issues tend to fester.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Sweeping contentious issues under the rug and relegating them to wanton aggravation is one major way of letting these same topics fester.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
At the same time, those provisions do not align with other features of the student-loan system that can allow the debt to fester for decades.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025
For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
He felt a deep love for the runaway boy, like a wound, and yet felt at the same time that this wound was not intended to fester in him, but that it should heal.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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