A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. From LearnThat.org. [Jessamyn West.]
Jeff, fester is not blaiming the reporters for crying, if I understand him. From Wordnik.com. [Layers of tragedy « BuzzMachine] Reference
CNN into the source controversy using the word "fester". From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Case Study: Why Conservatives Distrust the MSM] Reference
Give it a few more days to kind of fester, and the come out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2009] Reference
This one is just going to be -- just kind of fester and pester folks. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004] Reference
And apologies for the two comments, I had forgotten the word "fester". From Wordnik.com. [MadLiberation] Reference
MARCIANO: So Ida going to hang around, kind of fester a little bit and bothers, right, almost for the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009] Reference
Designer labels fester in fiction despite the critics’ complaints. From Wordnik.com. [Do We Need Awards for Brand-Name Blight in Fiction? « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Without being black and white, they fester in gray. From Wordnik.com. [Behind The 'Madrassa Hoax'] Reference
Senate - Arguing about rules while real problems fester. From Wordnik.com. [CONVENTIONAL WISDOM] Reference
It is often merely an excuse for allowing them to fester. From Wordnik.com. [Twelve Steps Toward Racial Harmony] Reference
I don't want vengeance to fester with me or with all of you. From Wordnik.com. [Karma, Old Dogs, and Fine Men] Reference
But the resentments within the pro-ordinance camp continued to fester. From Wordnik.com. [Homophobia] Reference
Tens of thousands have died in an ethnic war that continues to fester. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Tens of thousands have died in an ethnic conflict that continues to fester. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Tens of thousands have died in the ethnic conflict that continues to fester. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
That animosity is hardly new; in fact, it's had almost 10 centuries to fester. From Wordnik.com. [The Orthodox View] Reference
The issues brought into the union have continued to fester, generally out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Finding Sacred Ground in Marriage] Reference
Here's what started bothering me during the SB-191 debate, and continues to fester. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Shine a Light] Reference
And "because they talk a lot, disagreements tend not to fester," says a Powell aide. From Wordnik.com. [Chemistry In The War Cabinet] Reference
But Mysie's tongue gaed fully fester than her wires, an 'I'd raither the better o' her. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
While those attitudes may fester, the data suggest women's economic power will only grow. From Wordnik.com. [She Works, He Doesn't] Reference
The government failed to act quickly, allowing the situation to fester from 1991 to 1998. From Wordnik.com. [What Japan Got Right] Reference
But it's easy to see how this could become structural unemployment if its left to fester. From Wordnik.com. [Where the job losses are in one graph] Reference
It's the apology for speaking truth that takes a long time and allows the wounds to fester. From Wordnik.com. [It Takes Courage to Tell the Truth] Reference
Apologize sooner rather than later because time has a way of making little problems fester. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Irene S. Levine: The dirty little secret most women don't talk about] Reference
In fact they accumulate, they fester, and create the potential for greater problems to come. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Complacency] Reference
Unless these myths are explained to people they will continue to fester and create negativism. From Wordnik.com. [One of the Century’s Great Issues] Reference
"His finger was throbbing and beginning to fester and must have given him great pain all day.". From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Even now the powerful neighbors cling to their divergent views on history as current problems fester. From Wordnik.com. [Failed Expectations] Reference
When Americans are struggling to support their families, fears fester, prejudice grows, and demagogues thrive. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie: Religion Can Save America. Case In Point -- Immigration Reform] Reference
To protect your baby from potentially harmful bacteria that can fester in the liquid, toss it and start fresh. From Wordnik.com. [Baby’s meals and snacks: 3 habits to avoid] Reference
Tell your spouse when something is really bothering you, and resist letting it fester until the point of resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Judge Michele F. Lowrance: How to Survive the Divorce Epidemic] Reference
Silence is still silence, and the brick of my house is eaten away by time in the fester of too many seasons to count. From Wordnik.com. [All My Sins Rising and Other Uncertainties, After Reading Furious Cooking] Reference
Thomas's incision had begun to fester, he says, because "the razor was too dull and they had to cut me two or three times.". From Wordnik.com. [Terror Islands] Reference
Boys, meanwhile, whose rates of achievement had begun to falter, were ignored and their problems allowed to fester (page 53). From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Boys] Reference
Left unchecked, these conditions can fester and turn a once capable and productive worker into a malcontent and office misfit. From Wordnik.com. [Inder Sidhu: What Did You Do on Your Summer Vacation?] Reference
"The more authorities try to suppress discussion of what happened," he said, "the more it will fester like a wound that never heals.". From Wordnik.com. [When We Talk About Tiananmen] Reference
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