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But retail sales rose by 1% in June, improving from a 0.6% decrease in May.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Jeremy Barnum, chief financial officer at JPMorgan, said the decrease in delinquencies stems from improvement in the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The New York Fed’s quarterly report on household debt showed Americans had $1.25 trillion in credit-card debt in the first quarter, a $25 billion decrease from the end of 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Ashtekar and his colleagues have now proposed a new method for determining a black hole's entropy, a quantity that measures disorder and, according to the second law of thermodynamics, can never decrease.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

As prices fall and volatility increases, debt coverage decreases, prompting margin calls as a high proportion of debt is secured over financial assets — forcing deleveraging.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

She told “Good Morning America” that Johnson has taken part in a clinical trial for a therapy “that decreases inflammation, and I think that helped him a lot.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Doctors prescribing GLP-1s to young children cite the severity of childhood obesity and its complications, seeing significant BMI decreases in some patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

"We found that river CO2 emissions decline while carbon uptake through rock weathering increases as permafrost cover decreases," said Liwei Zhang, biogeochemist at East China Normal University.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

But as the wheel slows, the energy of the ball decreases, and eventually the ball drops into one of the thirty-seven slots in the wheel.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Gasoline prices decreased 9.7% last month, but are still much more expensive than a year ago.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Deforestation also decreased in the Cerrado -- a vast, biodiverse savanna south of the Amazon.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

As the distribution of particles in the bright region increased or decreased, the system effectively moved forward in time.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

But according to the research of professor Richard Hasen, the rate of congressional overrides has steadily decreased over the years as Congress becomes slower and less productive with each passing term.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward tile canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

It said "rough diamond trading conditions are expected to remain challenging in the near-term" with production decreasing and several producers closing mines.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

So they spent the next five years steadily decreasing their asking price in hopes of landing a buyer.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

Despite a significant proportion of American births to single mothers, the number of unmarried women giving birth has actually been decreasing for the past decade, with the decline largely driven by teenagers and working-class women.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

The 24-year-old forward, a former No. 2 overall draft pick now playing only 17 minutes a game as a reserve, looks to improve her game while decreasing fouls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

But then a few years later, rates of execution and death sentencing were once again decreasing.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson