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waning

adjective as in decreasing

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Trump’s recent comments and his decision to just listen to music at a rally provided the starkest picture yet of his waning mental acuity.

Trump’s recent comments and his decision to just listen to music at a rally provided the starkest picture yet of his waning mental acuity.

In a sign of his waning influence, his chosen successor for his supervisor’s seat failed to place in the top two in the March primary.

Where cars sit idle beneath the open sky, trees might one day arch overhead and couples linger in a waning twilight.

War movies have always made use of spectacle to heighten existential dangers, but “Blitz” is a welcome reminder that a bruised, searching and flawed home front, in the waning days of empire, was its own fascinating emotional terrain too.

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

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