- present participle of decline.
declining
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Growing older is often associated with memory loss and declining mental abilities.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The broadcaster, which has about 21,500 full time employees, gets most of its income from the licence fee, but the number of TV licences sold has been declining in recent years.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Those concerns include living costs, housing affordability, sluggish growth and declining trust in public institutions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
The big bet colleges made on computer science by hiring faculty and building facilities is now putting them in a bind as they look to pivot amid declining student demand.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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