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dwindle

[dwin-dl] / ˈdwɪn dl /


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Since the mid-20th century, these churches have seen attendance dwindle.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The question is whether price increases accelerate as inventory sources dwindle.

From MarketWatch May 13, 2026

As diplomatic momentum appeared to dwindle, fresh drone attacks in the Gulf on Sunday rattled the ceasefire.

From Barron's May 11, 2026

Now he’s watched the Lakers’ seemingly insurmountable three-games-to-none series lead dwindle to 3-2 after a 99-93 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2026

Now Sister Ignatia’s magical stores were starting to dwindle.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

As the number of workers dwindles, he thinks that wages for young people will rise, leading more people to enter the labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

But chances of finding anyone alive beneath deep rubble dwindles rapidly after a critical 72-hour window for rescuing trapped people.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

As time dwindles, the Internal Revenue Service has received over 1 million fewer income-tax returns compared to the same point a year ago.

From MarketWatch Apr. 9, 2026

Alternatively, gulls may be relying on human leftovers for much of the year as the natural food supply dwindles.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2025

Framed in the frosted glass panel, the squat outline waits, dwindles, and then disappears.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

By the two-year anniversary of the bombing, the full-time task force of 120 investigators—who had interviewed nearly 5,000 individuals and pursued leads in 38 states and three countries—had dwindled to several detectives.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

Although the Fourth of July “has not quite dwindled away,” he wrote, now it is good for nothing more than “burning fire-crackers!”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

The chances of finding anyone alive beneath meters deep of rubble have dwindled since the critical 72-hour window passed.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic closures led to even greater challenges for the city’s theater community as sales to live shows continued to plummet, arts grants were canceled and audiences dwindled.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

The trail, which had seemed large at first, had dwindled until she couldn’t find it anymore.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Putting off the paperwork might be her way of keeping at bay the reality that her time with her partner is dwindling.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The Japanese parliament has approved a bill to relax imperial succession rules, amid concerns over the dwindling size of the imperial family.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

But thanks in large part to the dwindling number of theaters projecting analog film since 2013, finding capable, actively working projectionists for releases like “The Odyssey” can be a struggle.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

As the announcement day neared, I began making harried after-work trips to the department stores at Water Tower Place, rifling through the dwindling midseason supply of winter wear, hunting the clearance racks in vain.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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