withers

It also withers behind a paywall, is manipulated by social media algorithms and hollowed out by covert corporate consolidation.

“Something seems really great and then it withers. .... The real thing to make downtown work and feel safer is to have more people there.”

As fine arts funding withers across sectors and Hollywood budgets shrink while studios retreat from local productions, workers are still recovering from lengthy strikes and the incipient threat of artificial intelligence.

As President Biden’s support among Arab and Muslim Americans withers over his backing of Israel in the war in Gaza, former President Donald J. Trump is making a long-shot push to take advantage.

Eight times he has come to Baltimore with a horse fast enough to leave with the blanket of black-eyed Susans that are draped over the withers of the Preakness Stakes winner.