descent

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As debris burns during descent, it can release toxic particles that remain in the atmosphere for hours and drift to other regions as weather patterns shift.

From Science Daily

It could be a long, slow descent with the lights out on an RAF jet, or a rapid, corkscrew down in a C-130 transport plane.

From BBC

"When official diplomatic channels adopt trolling tactics, they implicitly validate the information ecosystem's descent into provocation-based discourse," he told AFP.

From Barron's

It, notably, was the first of the major crypto funds to weaken: It began its descent in September several weeks ahead of the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.

From Barron's

Deep learning relies on optimization methods related to a mathematical technique called gradient descent.

From Science Daily