decline
Example Sentences
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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
The overall decline in participation is less alarming when you focus on people ages 25 to 54, who are less likely to be in school or retired.
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
Range Resources, a natural gas producer, rose 23% year to date but slipped 9% this week, its largest decline in a year.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
As Assemblyman Jacob Hiltzheimer noted in his diary, “The members decline remaining in the city.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
