decline
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The result was a decline in moviegoing and an explosion of interest in an exciting new technology: television.
Despite the “Wicked” partnership sales that defied expectations, P&G said last month that the number of overall products it sold declined in the most recent quarter.
It might be a company, say Microsoft, announcing it won’t be spending the full amount on AI, or lowering—or declining to raise—next year’s number.
MSF didn’t say if the armed men in the hospitals belonged to Hamas and declined to answer any follow-up questions.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.