downslide

Example Sentences

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The closing song from 2002’s “The Rising,” the album Springsteen wrote in response to 9/11, “My City of Ruins” was actually written a couple of years earlier, inspired by the then-decades-long economic downslide of Asbury Park, NJ, Springsteen’s adopted hometown.

From Salon

The question I’ve been trying to sort through ever since I left the company in 2019 is whether the downslide is because of Skipper’s absence, the state of sports, the state of media, the state of politics, or some combination of all of them.

From Slate

Now, next year, you’ll be a mess, on the downslide,” Kimmel joked.

From Los Angeles Times

The population has also more recently struggled with Syria’s economic downslide, which has sent food prices soaring and residents thrown into poverty.

From Seattle Times

But Johnson’s downslide was encapsulated in the long-running controversy over Downing Street parties in 2020 and 2021 that violated COVID-19 lockdown rules.

From Seattle Times