as in to poison
to lower in character, dignity, or quality
such shameless ambulance chasing cankers the legal profession
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as in rot
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Recent Examples of canker
Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Other diseases that impact the cosmos from developing are stem canker, powdery mildew, and Botrytis blight.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Start by removing all blighted twigs and cankered branches 6 to 10 inches below the edge of visible infection.
—Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
Noun
Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished — the victim of canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Other diseases that impact the cosmos from developing are stem canker, powdery mildew, and Botrytis blight.
—Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
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Dexter’s first kill, initiated by the nurse poisoning Harry when he’s hospitalized after a heart attack, is intercut with Deb’s high school volleyball game.Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
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Moscow’s disastrous war in Afghanistan in the 1980s poisoned its relations with the Muslim world, and even contributed to the collapse of the Soviet state.Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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For more severe cases of rot, repot the plant into fresh soil and consider propagating stem cuttings as an insurance policy.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024
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The year English went full brain rot. Before 2015, the average person wouldn’t be caught dead using internet slang.Vulture Editors, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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In that sense, Babygirl is a case study in how power corrupts not only those who have it, but those who crave it.Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2024
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But if others surrender, the press will have been corrupted — by Trump himself.S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
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Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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In the early to mid 20th century, older adults quite commonly developed such severe dental decay, necessitating complete dental extractions followed by dentures by the 7th or 8th decades of life.Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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In addition, heat from combustion causes some pesticides to degrade into harmful gases such as hydrogen cyanide.Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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This air bag issue is separate from the largest automotive recall in history, that of 67 million Takata air bag inflators, whose metal canisters degrade with age, heat and humidity, and can, without warning, become bombs.David Shepardson, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2024
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Charles, who ascended to the throne in 2022, was diagnosed with cancer and has been getting treatment ever since, Buckingham Palace said in early February this year.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 25 Dec. 2024
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This Christmas gathering is particularly poignant, given that King Charles and the Princess of Wales were both diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.Samantha Conti, WWD, 24 Dec. 2024
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But with the current war, the humanitarian situation in the camp has deteriorated, leading to the official confirmation of famine in August.Emmanuel Akinwotu, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024
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The service said travel conditions could deteriorate enough to slow traffic, and evening commutes would be affected.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Bailey looked out at the landscape again, thinking about El Naga’s description, the squalor of the NCI, the fractures between the United States and the Middle East.Sushrut Jangi, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2014
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Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024
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“Canker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canker. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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