decline
Example Sentences
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As well as the safety aspect of continuing without his full focus, Orie feared how his own mental health would decline.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
Commodities | Focus NDR Ned Davis Research External link April 2: Copper dropped 9.5% in March, snapping a seven-month winning streak and marking its largest monthly decline since June 2022.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
The announcement immediately triggered a global stock market panic, resulting in the largest decline since 2020, when the stock market crashed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Scientists at UC San Francisco have now pinpointed a protein that appears to drive much of this decline.
From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026
This is decidedly odd because the atoms that so liberally and congenially flock together to form living things on Earth are exactly the same atoms that decline to do it elsewhere.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
