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The house has fallen into decrepitude.
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Recent experience, including Mauricio Macri’s 2015-2019 Presidency, when Caputo and Federico Sturzenegger were also in charge of the nation’s economic levers, ended up with jarring devaluations that initiated a new and deeper descent into economic decrepitude.
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Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
If that’s not enough for perennial contention, then the rest of the AFC East’s decrepitude will keep that window wide open.
—Tim Graham, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Any rescue from the muck rests with ordinary citizens taking city and state government back from the politicians serving special interests rather than their own; and shunting aside the go-along-to-get-along business and civic elites settling for decrepitude.
—Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
Despite Orlok’s prosthetic decrepitude and the plague-like toxicity of his love, what truly horrifies Ellen about him is that some unknown part of her nature craves his touch.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Decrepitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decrepitude. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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decrepitude
noun
de·crep·i·tude
di-ˈkrep-ə-ˌt(y)üd 
: the quality or state of being decrepit : loss of strength or sturdiness especially from old age
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