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dwindling

adjective as in flagging

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After two decades of dwindling influence, NATO is refreshed and energized by the growing threat on its eastern flank.

In Wild Ones, you talk about the dwindling numbers of several species.

They can exacerbate splits within a ruling leadership, foment popular unrest, or expedite a dwindling current account.

Think thirtysomething single women are the only ones stressed about their dwindling options for marriage and kids?

The yakuza are dwindling from public view: it will be a long time before they are really gone---if ever.

The winged species would have ruled over the world, instead of dwindling away in impossibility of development.

Their fighting force was steadily dwindling and now their ammunition was running out.

The dwindling crowd on shore waved and shouted, and I went off alone and directly rubbed against some fresh white paint.

The bolt piles grew; they were hurled swiftly down the chute into the dwindling river, rafted to the mill.

How was he to pay up the liabilities of his bank shares from his dwindling practice?

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On this page you'll find 320 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dwindling, such as: fading, listless, sagging, slumping, waning, and weakening.

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

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