diminishing
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Gray whale numbers have plunged by about half from 26,000 over the past decade amid diminishing food sources from changing ocean conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The crowd is almost all local, a reflection of the diminishing appeal of this tiny coastal state among foreign tourists.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
But keep in mind that there does come a point of diminishing returns.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
In Callais, Alito also promised that he was not diminishing the constitutional guarantee against “present-day intentional racial discrimination regarding voting.”
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Working with her new husband, Pierre, Curie found that certain kinds of rocks poured out constant and extraordinary amounts of energy, yet without diminishing in size or changing in any detectable way.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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