withered
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By the century’s end it was fragmentary and partially overgrown, its once-pulsing culture withered to a memory that only the growth of the federal highway system in the 20th century would revive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Needless to say, as more channels encrypted their signals, BUD sales withered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Defrocked and disgraced, Swaggart clawed his way back to the pulpit, but attendance at his church shrank, his television ministry withered and the Bible college he founded stripped away his name.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025
Signs of the disease can be seen through withered and blighted leaves.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025
There was no ale and only one withered apple left, but water flowed in the river hard by, from which John filled the leather flagons.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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