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If you think we’re kidding, slow your roll: The first one, which we didn’t hate, understood the ominous, moldering potential of a kiddie restaurant gone to seed.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

This Batman has gone to seed, bearded, shaggy gray hair rattling around decayed Wayne Manor until he’s roused from his torpor by the twin Flashes.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023

To drape a veil of verdancy over a world gone to seed?

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

To save yourself additional work in the garden, hold off on adding any weeds, especially those that have gone to seed, which could potentially sprout and spread wherever you place your final compost.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2022

The woman is huge and blond and puffy like a 1950s beauty queen gone to seed.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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