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He once claimed there's something Takei is "festering, and it makes him unhappy that he takes it out on me."

From Fox News • Oct. 16, 2021

The virus is festering at Oakdale as older inmates and prisoners with serious medical conditions live among the general population.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020

“New England is festering with Bicentennial madness, as though desperately trying to resurrect the past to reassure ourselves that we sprang from somewhere,” Shepard writes.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 10, 2019

Is it possible that this pathetic, four-year, Dodgers TV blackout is festering into a karmic curse?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2017

That is what I want," replied I. "I know it is, but my wound is festering and must be washed and dressed.

From The Little Savage by Marryat, Frederick