festers 1 of 2

plural of fester

festers

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fester

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of festers
Noun
Those issues include a shortage of affordable housing in Boston and the open-air drug use, dealing and crime that festers at and around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, an area commonly known as Mass and Cass. Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025 Delay a tough conversation, and resentment festers. Jason Richmond, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for festers
Noun
  • Those include fish boils, something usually associated with Wisconsin’s Door County.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Bathing daily and keeping your buttocks clean and dry can help prevent boils, folliculitis, and other skin conditions.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away.
    Lois McLatchie Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When leaves fall to the ground, the carbon stays in these leaves, breaks down, and decomposes and releases nutrients back into the soil that plants can take in.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Research suggests that pimple patches aren't effective on cystic acne, pustules, or blackheads.
    Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The debris collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As for this new creation, human clinical trials confirmed the pimples completely disappeared after seven days of treatment, according to the team.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This CeraVe acne cleanser is best for acne-prone skin—a major concern for teens—and helps clear away pimples and blackheads.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Competitive advantage now decays in months, not years.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Those bumps will push out deduction limitations and result in upward adjustments to tax brackets and increases to other key thresholds.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • If you’re doomed to go 4-8 again, give the locals something to cling to while they’re stuck riding over the bumps.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Festers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/festers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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