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declining



ADJECTIVE
descendent
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ADJECTIVE
descending
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ADJECTIVE
downhill
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ADJECTIVE
shrinking
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NOUN
declination
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After declining in March, manufacturing activity expanded with a rise in metalworking and industrial machinery that coincided with a lift in exports of industrial machinery, equipment and parts, Statistics Canada said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026

Since the start of March the stock has been very consistent, declining on a weekly basis just three times.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

In the past, many media spinoffs were viewed largely as efforts to cast off declining or unwanted assets.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

He added he was "sick and tired" of Betsi being "a byword for dysfunction and declining standards".

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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