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rise and fall

verb as in billow

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Idaho continues to entrust death investigations to elected coroners, who have no oversight and few rules to follow, and whose budgets can rise and fall on the whims of other county politicians — unlike in places such as Washington, where state funding helps provide some stability.

From Salon

“The bottom line is that inflation’s rise and fall reflected primarily global drivers,” the International Monetary Fund concluded in September.

From Slate

Ruland is the author of “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records” and the novel “Make It Stop.”

Last week, she was nominated for six Grammy Awards, including best new artist and album of the year, for her debut The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess.

From BBC

Next month, Netflix will release Part 1 of “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” based on the sprawling magical realism novel by Gabriel García Márquez about the rise and fall of a fictional town in Colombia.

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

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