decline

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With Wilder, he is someone who held his form well but the decline has been rapid.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

This “prime-age” group’s participation rate has held near multidecade highs—evidence that the overall decline in participation is being driven by an aging population cycling out of the workforce rather than discouraged workers giving up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

That marks its largest decline since the first week of April last year, when it slumped 15%.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Second, there is the decline of belief in magic and witchcraft, already hinted at in Lafeu’s speech, if we take ‘modern’ to mean something more than just ‘ordinary’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton