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As the influenza epidemic subsided across the country in early 1919, so too did the intense public interest in a vaccine.

The tensions have subsided somewhat as Democrats come to grips with their tenuous majority.

That’s something doctors initially believed might be a possibility and they became visible on subsequent scans and tests when swelling in Brees’s chest subsided.

Until state lawmakers and the public take action, there’s no reason to think Wisconsin’s coronavirus cases and deaths will subside.

From Vox

While many of us will go back to the familiar old ways and places after the threat of infection subsides, these new offerings won’t vanish completely when the pandemic does.

Bill feels a sensation like “subsiding into a pile of bones.”

Has the subsiding of the 1990s crime wave changed - not only the quantity of gun incidents - but also the character?

One factor is the subsiding of the crack-cocaine epidemic that hit Washington hard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A biggish sea running, subsiding as the day went on—and my mind grew calmer with the waves.

On the 4th day, the inflammation was evidently subsiding, and on the 6th it was scarcely perceptible.

I said, I thought the heat a little, and but a little, subsiding.

Val sat up very straight, and made her a sign, subsiding quickly upon a look from Mrs. Gano.

There was a game of hide-and-seek on the lawn, and when the shrieks and laughter were subsiding, some one began to sing within.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subsiding, such as: collapsing, decreasing, descending, lowering, plunging, and sliding.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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