as in to poison
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
such shameless ambulance chasing cankers the legal profession
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as in rot
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Recent Examples of canker
Tim Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
1 Aug. 2019
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Fungal disease, butternut canker, wiped out about 90% of the state's butternut trees.
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Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Start by removing all blighted twigs and cankered branches 6 to 10 inches below the edge of visible infection.
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Tim Johnson,
chicagotribune.com,
1 Aug. 2019
Noun
Even the most superb body begins to diminish in a person’s early 30s, thanks to the onset of sarcopenia, which sounds like a canker but means the incremental decline of muscle mass.
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Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Fungal disease, butternut canker, wiped out about 90% of the state's butternut trees.
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Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Kara Zor-El (Alcock) goes on a planet-hopping mission to save her beloved Krypto – with young and vengeful girl Ruthye (Eve Ridley) in tow – after he’s poisoned by the villainous Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts).
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As a final comedic beat, Krypto immediately gets into some chocolate — a playful contrast to his earlier near-death experience after being poisoned by Krem.
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Soaking cherry seeds helps remove the pulp, preventing rot that can hinder germination.
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The rot began long before the 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
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Americans are angry that their kids are being indoctrinated into a left-wing ideology intended to infiltrate their hearts and corrupt their moral center.
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Character also involves standing up to people who are bankrupting and corrupting this country.
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At age 11, my favorite Broadway show was Follies – a classic preteen tale about the decay of female beauty and fading fame within an unscrupulous industry of vaudeville and burlesque.
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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This involves sealing all cracks, crevices and entry points with materials that won't degrade over time.
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Batteries degrade, actuators wear out, sensors drift, and every safety case has to hold.
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The diagnosis was of early-stage cancer, or Stage 1.
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Amodei predicts that, over the next five to ten years, AI will achieve, among other things, the reliable prevention and treatment of nearly all natural infectious disease, the elimination of most cancer, the prevention of Alzheimer’s and a doubling of the human lifespan.
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For the decades after the historic Old Soldiers’ Home was shut down in the 1970s, the two-thirds of the campus north of Wilshire Boulevard remained a collection of vacant deteriorating buildings and residential programs for physical and mental health recovery.
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However, the strategy itself has been flawed, often prioritizing roads in excellent condition while allowing moderately deteriorating streets to fail completely.
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The children reportedly lived in squalor and weren’t enrolled in school.
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Reform and Restore are no doubt relying on support from pockets of deprivation, squalor and neglect in Makerfield.
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“Canker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canker. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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