as in decomposing
to go through decomposition
plants molding in the abandoned garden
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Recent Examples of molding
There’s no shortage of restomod operations in 2025, each dedicated to the pursuit of starting with canonical pieces of automotive history, and molding together the best technology, materials, and design to assemble sensational new interpretations of these masterworks.
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Peter Nelson, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
Director Luke Sheppard and his creative team are tasked with molding the show into shape by the end of the month.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
But the coach has a track record of molding young players into valuable assets.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2025
Nothing hangs on the pale yellow living room walls, the flowery ceiling molding overhead providing the only décor.
—New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Peter Nelson, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025
Director Luke Sheppard and his creative team are tasked with molding the show into shape by the end of the month.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
But the coach has a track record of molding young players into valuable assets.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2025
Nothing hangs on the pale yellow living room walls, the flowery ceiling molding overhead providing the only décor.
—New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molding
Verb
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Funk assures that the softened, decomposing cardboard will allow plants to grow through.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
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Jon Hallford, a southern Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decomposing bodies and gave families fake ashes, was sentenced on state charges on Friday.—
Maria Braganini,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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This vacuum was meant to prevent the tungsten filament––that’s the little wire inside the bulb, the thing that glows––from burning up and disintegrating immediately, which is what a very hot piece of metal would do in the presence of oxygen.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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As in a seventeenth-century poem by John Donne, George Herbert, or Andrew Marvell, the fraught human body is a microcosm, a mirror to the larger disintegrating world spirit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The fruit can have a little give, but a very soft lemon is overripe or rotting.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
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The conservancy's plan to shoot the deer from the air, using helicopters, was shut down in 2024 after residents voiced concerns of bullets raining down and rotting deer carcasses that would be left behind.—
Julie Sharp,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Sporotrichosis is a fungal infection of the skin caused by exposure to a fungus that lives in soil, plants, decaying vegetation, moss and hay.—
Leslie Baumann,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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When Qualls saw the building again on a cool day last month, the renovation was a night-and-day transformation from the decaying structure that had sat vacant for several decades, its roof near collapsing.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Molding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molding. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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