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How to use the word fester in a Sentence?

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We’re moving backwards and it’s concerning to me, history has taught us what happens when political speech on social media companies is allowed to fester unchecked.

Anika Collier Navaroli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

(C)(P) FEAR- IS THE DRIVING FORCE WHICH FUELS THE EBB AND FLOWS OF ALL THAT IS- AMERICAN SOCIETY. IT IS GENERATIONAL, AND WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE IT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FABRIC AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ALLOW IT TO GROW AND FESTER. CANCER MAY HAVE A CURE, BUT RACISM DOES NOT.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

My dad was always the person who would plant seeds and give me encouragement but also would say things that would fester inside me that wouldn't come to fruition for a while, he was very worldly and deep in his thinking. My mom was the enforcer. My dad may have been in the Special Forces, but I was never afraid of him. My mom's still here, and I'm still deathly afraid of her. She's a very tough, tough old lady, very demanding. She was the hand, she was the one, I love her so much, but she was tough.

Earl Woods

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Facebook is currently facing a global problem of trust, regulators do not trust them at this point in time because they have allowed certain activity to fester without dealing with it.

Nikhil Pahwa

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think that the turnout is not guaranteed and all of the candidates and the interest groups have a lot of work to do, they don't want the anger to sit there and fester and turn into so much frustration that people don't feel that there is anything they can do.

Matt Barreto

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What this reveals is donor exhaustion, part of the issue is that in the past, these crises were of short duration. Now we have semi-permanentrefugee camps. This is the world we are in: We have allowed so many situations to fester.

Brett Schaefer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If you don't fix a problem, it will fester, and this is exactly what we have now.

Bradley Birkenfeld

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are equally appalled that the state government continues to let this persecution fester, allowing more Christians to be displaced, imprisoned, and beaten, if the government does not intervene to protect religious minorities, I see no reason why the trend of increased persecution will not continue.

Nate Lance

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester it can erupt into unrest.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In terms of the political consciousness, those individuals are on the minds of everyday Iranians, as long as that issue is not resolved and those people continue to be in limbo I think that open wound continues to fester for hardliners, reformists or ordinary Iranians who are not necessarily political in any way.

Faraz Sanei

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But those issues still fester.

John Ing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's the proverbial dead-cat bounce. After days of worries, the market's in a relief rally on the heels of New York and hopes that we get a respite on everything from China to Greece, but those issues still fester...We're in uncharted waters as far as the Greece exit, and the (Chinese) market collapse is only 30 percent after a 150 percent gain.

John Ing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion.

Mark Schneider

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Jessamyn West

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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