emaciates

present tense third-person singular of emaciate
as in fades
to lose bodily strength or vigor without adequate medical supplies, doctors could only look on helplessly as cholera victims continued to emaciate

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  • But rental business owners like Zhao observed that the rental prices have begun to slide as novelty surrounding these stunt-performing androids fades.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • But as hope of finding survivors fades and the number of dead continues to climb, many fear the political aftershocks of the disaster may prove nearly as destabilizing as the earthquake itself.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
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  • When the dollar weakens, commodity prices expressed in dollars tend to rise to maintain purchasing power parity for buyers operating in other currencies.
    Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • But the corresponding upheaval is still catastrophic for any surrounding planets, which either get swallowed up by the expanding star, or drift into wider orbits as the star’s gravity weakens—some are flung out from the system entirely.
    Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
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  • That water supply is not the same water supply that goes toward agriculture, which accounts for a huge portion of the water used in the country, Anisfeld said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Sanders identifies a real free-rider problem, even if his solution goes much too far.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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  • There is no scrapeable archive of how to grasp a wet cup, unload a box that sags in the middle, fold a towel, or help an older adult out of a chair.
    Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • As a result, the tournament typically sags in the middle, as neither comes close to losing.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 27 May 2026
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  • But too often that has become shorthand for a stodgy and unresponsive sector that fails to respond to customer demand.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • Standard sonar often fails in shallow waters, while cameras are blinded by shifting sands and the simple distortion of rolling ocean waves.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
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  • From the laundry room to the kitchen countertops to the bathroom sinks to the light fixtures, Natalie Randolph's first new house is starting to feel like home, and that is a good feeling.
    Noel Brennan, CBS News, 16 June 2026
  • When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor in a process called whale fall.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
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“Emaciates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emaciates. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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