slackening

Last year — amid a stagnating economy and slackening labor market — it reached record highs.

For Congress to even contemplate a slackening of the regulation that already exists is nothing short of absurd.

And as “Coup” shows, he has finally become something non-controversial, at least up on screen: an artist slackening into repetition and mild inconsequence.

Instead of celebrating, auto executives worried that demand for electric vehicles was slackening, raising questions about their plans to invest tens of billions of dollars to develop new models and build factories.

The office space gaslighting gives way to horror trickery, slackening the plot's tension until it nearly unravels in the final act.