receding
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Every portrait depicts a pale woman with a sharp nose, bow lips, slightly receding chin, and dark eyes with a pink lacrimal caruncle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
While heavy rain continued to fall early Monday evening, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon told a news conference that floodwaters were receding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
It’s true: I live surrounded by people who keep receding into the music of the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Now he is left to clear up the mess and build bridges, amid claims support for his re-election as Fifa president in March is receding.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
She hung up and sat in the silence again, the temporary lightness she’d felt from the conversation already receding.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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