dwindle
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But go back earlier, and the talk starts to dwindle.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Many MAGA-centered merchandise retailers and their suppliers are seeing sales dwindle, according to interviews with wholesalers, sales representatives, business owners and employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
But this year the Rockies had the least snow on record, and they’ve watched springs dry up and creeks dwindle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Ranchers, meanwhile, are seeing their hay supplies dwindle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
There was much to remember about that time, and much to tell, but the moon in its nightly travels would dwindle, disappear, and fatten again before their stories were entirely told.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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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
In public health terms, elimination means that a disease has become rare enough, and immunity to it widespread enough, that local transmission dwindles quickly if a case or two emerges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
A great stair should lead to something great, but this one dwindles away in the upper stories without fulfilling its mighty promise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"Do we grow stronger sitting here? Our host dwindles every day."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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With far less snowmelt than usual feeding the Colorado River, inflows dwindled, and the second-largest reservoir in the United States fell to record-low levels in late August and early September.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
According to Gus Hall’s obituary in the New York Times in 2000, Communist Party enrollment “had dwindled to about 3,000, down from a peak of about 66,000 in 1939.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
He spent the next decade moving from safe-house to safe-house, first protected by a loyal team of bodyguards and, when they dwindled away, by his family.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Today that lead has dwindled to just over 100,000 vehicles through July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Their population dwindled and they slowly died out, except perhaps for one or two members who joined their Sapiens neighbours.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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He is reluctant to resume major combat operations, the officials said, partly because the U.S. wants to reserve dwindling munitions for other contingencies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some condominium HOAs have run into trouble recently, as MarketWatch has reported, in part due to skyrocketing insurance costs and dwindling financial reserves.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Repeated closures of parking in Market Square by the commissioners in previous years was cited by her as a significant reason for shop closures due to dwindling footfall in recent years.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Maybe it stems from AI money, or the dwindling crime rate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He came to a path, the dwindling ruins of a road of long ago.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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