receding

With curly hair receding above his broad forehead and an energetic grin, Zuckerman was effectively Tanton’s Trojan horse.

As a result, Breed said, crime is receding.

“This three-year deal is accelerating the receding of the sea,” said Eric Montoya Reyes, executive director of the nonprofit group Los Amigos de la Comunidad.

The statue depicts a pivotal scene from Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele, where Kaluuya’s character is hypnotised by his girlfriend’s mother and finds himself receding into "the Sunken Place", a suppressed metaphysical abyss.

As the conflict has spread and metastasised, its origins have faded from view, like the scene of a car crash receding in the rear view mirror of a juggernaut hurtling towards even bigger disasters.