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Wait, back up: Why did the fighting taper off?

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Also, we would reassess if we see demand for AI services taper off.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

The overall rate of inflation tends to slow down once oil prices taper off.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 2026

Nolasco said a taper is the favorite haircut these days and there’s also players bleaching their hair blond for the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

What curious principle demands that a candle flame taper always toward the sky?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

“If the geopolitical backdrop does stabilize and the U.S.-Iran conflict tapers off, we would expect the pre-conflict relative strength of the Northeast Asian tech sector to reassert itself,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

TYG could be comparatively well positioned if the recent surge in oil prices tapers off, as futures markets suggest is probable.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

The economy is likely to expand this year by an above-average rate of 2.8%, the IMF forecast, before growth tapers off to 2% in 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2025

Contrary to earlier assumptions that the asteroid came from the south, their analysis shows the SPA basin tapers toward the south, meaning the asteroid likely arrived from the north.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2025

Her fingertips kindled into ten blue tapers and she didn’t even feel it.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

After I came off the bipolar meds, a different medication helped me through a hard year, and when I was ready, I tapered off slowly while working with my doctor.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Some have sent a detailed proposal to the department setting out a "tapered" alternative scheme.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

A private gauge showed China’s manufacturing activity grew at a slower pace in June due to tapered factory production, diverging from a pickup shown in a competing index.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The study "A southward differentiated impactor forms the tapered shape of the South Pole-Aitken impact basin on the Moon" was published in Science Advances.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026

Kyril Montana wore a neatly pressed pink shirt, a bolo tie, beige, tapered western pants, and cowboy boots, and he carried a pack of filtertip cigarettes in his shirt pocket over the heart.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The analysts forecast an operating loss for the company’s petrochemical unit for the July-September period amid sluggish demand, with the benefit from U.S. tariff refunds in 2Q tapering off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Sightings begin around June and ramp up in July before slowly tapering down through the fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

For decades, the city hosted several a year, but the practice began tapering off in the late 1960s.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

Some looked almost identical to the classic “toothpick grooves” of fossil humans, complete with fine parallel scratches and tapering shapes.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

Across the jumble of banded coils Matthias thought he could catch a glimpse of the tapering tail.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques