decline
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My best financial adviser cost me $100: the six Everyman’s Library volumes of Edward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
Decline in U.S. healthcare jobs in February, amid strikes.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
Decline of the rusty-patched bumblebee could be a harbinger of die-offs of other species that were once common.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
Decline is the flip side of gardening’s cheer.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
“Mr. Gibbon,” he announced, and held up the first volume of Mr. Edward Gibbon’s masterpiece of historical narrative, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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