decline
Example Sentences
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Rather than lashing out, Obama addressed the controversy in his trademark measured tone, framing the episode as part of a broader moral decline in American public life.
From Salon
Greeting visitors is a dire panorama of nonfunctioning wells, battered pipelines and empty storage tanks, among other markers of decline.
From Los Angeles Times
But ever since a pair of Italian ski legends lit the cauldron in Milan, just 18 months after the summer fête of Paris, the decline of the Games has felt like a distant memory.
But the entire market is facing a future without the key ingredient that fueled much of its famed gains—nearly 40 years of declining interest rates.
Comparing the strength of the NBA's local and international players is the latest attempt to reverse those declines.
From Barron's
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