- present participle of fade.
fading
Example Sentences
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The old image of India—as a colorful land where the Beatles went to meditate—is fading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
To reproduce the fading flares astronomers actually observe, the researchers needed what Bandopadhyay called "a new ingredient": a star that was already rotating rapidly before its first encounter with the black hole.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
A new shop opened along Greenock's fading High Street in May.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In one of the world's most AI-connected societies, the village's greatest challenge is not fading belief in fortune-telling, but the way it is consumed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The spirit trend didn’t dissolve overnight, but skeptics had now exposed fraud often enough that belief among the general public was fading fast.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
