fester

Example Sentences

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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

What’s more, he vows to reopen an investigation into the death of Laius, the former leader who died 34 years ago under circumstances that have allowed rumor and innuendo to fester.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

The stories in this unmatched collection mercilessly tap into the horrors that can fester in the human heart, as well as taaqtumi—Inuktitut for “in the dark.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

She could never be free of the fester.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor