rotting

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None of this will cure the malaise and pessimism rotting the economy from the inside.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Now he says he feels as though he is "rotting away for no reason" in a hospital room.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Others had fruit sitting on the ground beneath, most of it not quite orange, rotting.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

The air is rife with hydrogen sulfide, carrying the familiar smell of rotting eggs.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

There he poked the quill into the soft, rotting wood of his floor, where it stood erect, a sort of talisman.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig