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In “The End of Power,” Moisés Naím argued that power was decaying.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

Beneath the surface, the vegetation was decaying — and the process may have been sped up by pallets and cardboard dumped upstream, which provided food for the bacteria, according to the county Public Works Department.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021

The Market was decaying, and desperately needed improvements.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2021

By the 1990s, the U.S. stock of military family housing – nearly 300,000 homes in all service branches – was decaying and starved of funding.

From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2018

The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories.

From "1984" by George Orwell