rots

present tense third-person singular of rot

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Recent Examples of rots 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rots
Verb
  • This means green signals are inherently weaker, and when outdoor sunlight adds noise, the measurement range shrinks even further, and accuracy deteriorates.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • When trust between boards and CEOs deteriorates, cracks spread quickly.
    Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The film reportedly follows Streep’s Miranda as the magazine industry crumbles around her.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • However, the film often crumbles under the weight of the ambitions.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 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
Verb
  • Funiculars use a counterweight pulley system so that when one car of a funicular descends, the other car can ascend.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Then the Marswalker does its job and climbs or descends a staircase.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 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
Verb
  • This means that damaging workplace behaviors reduce productivity directly as well as create emotional exhaustion that worsens the decline.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The company travels to Rome, where Blackshirts march in the piazzas, but Duse’s health worsens.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bonnie Treichel, an attorney who specializes in ERISA, expects more firms to seize on private assets as the number of public companies declines and the private market grows.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Then the real value of dollars, meaning their purchasing power, declines.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Rots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rots. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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