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a pervasive moral or social decay
a society beset by moral gangrene
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Recent Examples of gangrene
They are typically used to treat decompression sickness for scuba divers, carbon monoxide poisoning, gangrene and certain kinds of wounds or injuries that won't heal on their own, according to Johns Hopkins.
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Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
This type of Raynaud’s is more likely to lead to serious complications like frostbite or gangrene.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 6 Feb. 2025
To stave off gangrene, Batzer had a thumb, several fingers, a foot, and a portion of one leg amputated.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Three weeks later gangrene set in, and Wilson almost died.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
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Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
This type of Raynaud’s is more likely to lead to serious complications like frostbite or gangrene.
—Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 6 Feb. 2025
To stave off gangrene, Batzer had a thumb, several fingers, a foot, and a portion of one leg amputated.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Three weeks later gangrene set in, and Wilson almost died.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gangrene
Noun
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Made from recyclable, all-weather polystyrene that is designed to last and never fade, the bench looks like real wood without the threat of rot and termites.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Sep. 2025
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In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The tech giant has built in a feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement, which is designed to stop attacks targeting memory corruption bugs, often exploited by spyware developers and phone forensic tools used by law enforcement, TechCrunch reports.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The rise is coupled with major political shifts in the country following the election of President Bernardo Arévalo, who vowed to fight corruption, tackle inequality, and rectify the discrimination against Indigenous Peoples after years of democratic erosion and corruption.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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As noted above, the emphasis was on the states of evil, sycophancy, and hallucination.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The third was that the other political party is not just wrong politically but downright evil.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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For engineers, all this means coupling MLOps with DevOps by integrating retraining triggers, model validation steps and performance degradation alerts directly into deployment pipelines.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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High-speed charging generates substantial thermal energy, which can accelerate cell degradation, reduce the battery’s overall lifespan, and in rare cases, lead to safety issues like thermal runaway.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Nearly two weeks after San Jose began dismantling its largest homeless encampment, the city is set to open its first-ever safe sleeping site, which will provide tents for dozens of the approximately 370 residents who have lived in dilapidated RVs and squalor at Columbus Park.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
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The cottage retains its utopian squalor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Hank isn’t being accused of mere immorality, after all; he’s being accused of rape, which was also a crime back in Kierkegaard’s days.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
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Beyond the inherent immorality of thoughtlessly torturing and killing birds and wildlife, Death Pipes are an example of the hidden toll that people and their structures are exacting on nature.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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The open-air drug use, dealing, filth and related violence has spilled over into surrounding neighborhoods, taxing residents of those hot-spot areas.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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In all, 12 dogs were inside, 10 of them puppies and two mama dogs, all emaciated, all living in filth, all in a single home, the Nashville Humane Association said.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Gangrene.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangrene. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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