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senectitude

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as in senescence

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At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
What jolted it out of its unremarkable senescence and put it on a kamikaze course for the moon?

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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Yet over the past decade, the park has fallen into a state of decrepitude, trash littering the venue.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Similarly, ‘Barton Springs,’ a meditation on beautiful youth doomed to mortal decrepitude, feels somehow too personal to make the visceral leap into a reader’s recognition.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Mar. 2026

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As Kasubhai observed, despite its legal feebleness, Kennedy’s declaration and its explicit threat has had a concrete impact on the provision of gender-affirming services to American youths.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
Signs of disease include warts on legs, crusty or swollen eyes, feebleness, a ruffled appearance, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, and diarrhea.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026

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