declension

That’s the whole exhibition, and anyone who was expecting this to be a Netflix declension of the Degenerate Art Show, with poor patriarchal Picasso as ritualized scapegoat, can rest easy.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

My chief concern about this otherwise fantastic work is that it is set up as a kind of declension narrative, itself a popular American Christian genre as old as the republic.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2018

In eloquent sermons known as jeremiads, after the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah, vigilant ministers warned their flocks against declension, or a decline in religious standards.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

I asked, after his declension of my shortcomings.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2016

He simply supplied the texts, aided with the translations, and rapped my hand when I failed at declension or agreement.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“They’re serious languages. They have declensions, they have verb tenses, they have grammar and accents and all the rest of it. They sound more realistic if the language is actually developed,” he added.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 7, 2017

Members of relatively homogeneous groups, on the other hand, share a base of common knowledge, enabling them to pile on declensions without confusing one another.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

During the Force Majeure show, Izzard gets to grips with German sentence structure and declensions, earning knowing applause from the Berlin crowd for his perfect use of the fiendishly tricky genitive case at one stage.

From Reuters ● Jan. 29, 2014

When I was learning Latin, I had a professor who was frustrated that I couldn't get all the noun declensions straight within the first week of class.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013

Most likely it was Julius Caesar who taught him his declensions.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer