- present participle of diminish.
diminishing
Example Sentences
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Foulkes said outboards could get even more powerful, though they could reach a point of diminishing returns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Washington appears to have reached the point where more of the same was producing diminishing returns,” Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management, wrote in a weekend note.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Aiyar believes the movement has tapped into broader anxieties over a slowing economy, scarce jobs and a deepening sense that the future offers diminishing opportunities.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The diminishing returns of instant gratification might explain why catalogs are nearly always, according to trade publications and business journals, on the verge of a renaissance.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
From far off across the great cavern, echoes answered, and his voice bounded from cliff to cliff, doubling and diminishing and causing those distant ghosts to pause in their endless procession and look up.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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