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Moustapha, who has four children, said there was no evidence against his wife, who was being left "to rot in jail" and that it was a "clear example of collective punishment".

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Perhaps if Short weren’t associated with a detective noir masterpiece, she would never have become a useful metaphor for the corruption and rot associated with Hollywood and Los Angeles, or an eternal enigma.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

At one point, one resident said, the smell of rot was so strong they believed a wild animal had died on a nearby hiking trail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“Hope must be in the strategic leader’s DNA—without it, the whole enterprise would rot from the top down.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The dimly lit corridor smelled of flowers and of furniture polish, with just the slightest tang of formaldehyde and rot beneath the surface.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

The analysts at SentimenTrader call it a “Weekend at Bernie’s” rally, “propped up almost entirely by flows into a handful of mega-cap tech and semiconductor leaders, while the broader market rots beneath the surface.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Yet while soft tissue usually rots away, the lack of oxygen caused by the manner of the shark's death and more mud landing on top preserved the fish.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

The saying goes that the fish rots from the head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

Yet, huge amounts of food – on average in the U.S., as much as 40% of it – rots before being eaten.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2025

I whispered; “even if it’s lying there, undisturbed, the water rots it, doesn’t it?”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Once a zone of promise and connection, the web has not only rotted and enshittified, it’s turned into a literal warzone.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

The building was storing millions of pounds of fresh and frozen food such as meat, bread and seafood that rotted after the blaze, prompting complaints, citations and lawsuits over foul odors and pests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Telephone poles covered in fundraising pleas for families whose breadwinners either rotted in faraway detention center or were sent back to their home countries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

In the wild, the larvae live in small holes that have rotted into old pine trees.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

As Tariq talked, Laila pictured her life as a rotted rope, snapping, unraveling, the fibers detaching, falling away.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

That heartless sea alludes to both a disturbing woman in his past and hard times when young, watching “the locust feed / Like tractor wrecks and cabbages rotting in a field.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“But I am the only one rotting in prison.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

In Tanji, home to The Gambia's largest fish landing, the stench of rotting catch is becoming an issue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Lally said the weekend's fly-tipping was "one of the worst examples that we have come across", but it was not unusual to find discarded BBQs, beer cans and rotting food.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sheed leaned his bike against a plank, and the rotting wood broke from his slight touch, falling into the cluttered yard.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles