- present participle of decline.
declining
Example Sentences
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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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