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taper

[tay-per] / ˈteɪ pər /


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Early voting will soon taper off, as states start cutting off early voting as an option in the days before the election on Tuesday, 3 November.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Rain was forecast throughout Sunday for Bangkok and its surrounding provinces and would begin to taper off on Monday, the metropolitan administration said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Oxford estimates car sales will taper off soon and fall short of the 16 million mark in 2026, compared with 16.2 million new vehicles sold in 2025.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

As time went on, painting taper candles helped her find joy again, and others noticed too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Slowly the rush would start to taper off and we’d wind down.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

“The real test is what happens after Labor Day, when leisure demand tapers and airlines adjust fall capacity for a lower-fuel environment,” Cunningham wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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

California’s wet winter continued Sunday with the heaviest rain expected in the afternoon and evening, and more rain forecast for Monday before it tapers off Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 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

The pain in my eyes tapers away, just enough for me to open them.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Tiny, tapered holes in this long-sleeve shirt channel air onto the skin, with larger cutouts in high-sweat spots to keep the shirt light and chafe-free.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

It was a stocking cap, basically, except the tapered part at the top seemed extra long, almost too long, like a tail growing out of the back of her head.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

The ornate exterior, with its tapering towers and multiple facades, has an almost organic quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

The Department of Health and Human Services will also convene a panel to develop guidance for doctors, train staff at federally qualified health centers and roll out training on “psychiatric medication risks, tapering, and deprescribing.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Flood had previously warned that CTA buying was tapering off.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

The mirror flipped like a tossed coin, and where cracked glass should’ve been there was a fat green tentacle, tapering down to a tip the width of a carrot and whipping about.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles


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