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Legal costs contributed to a 13% year-over-year decrease in earnings per share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

For all of the vicious debates over sex ed in the ’90 and 2000s, those pushing abstinence and those promoting comprehensive health education could largely agree on one thing: We wanted teen pregnancies to decrease.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Calcium-fortified sparkling water produced a decrease after 5 minutes.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

“A key risk of the fund is the fact that changes in interest rates can eventually lead to a decrease in income for the fund,” it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

At first, I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

Others have said that while small price decreases are welcome, they appreciate the messaging it sends more.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

"Our findings show that, across different organism groups, extinctions happened at much higher rates for those more vulnerable to increases in water temperature and decreases in oxygen availability."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Meanwhile, doctors who are prescribing GLP-1s to younger children say they are seeing BMI decreases of up to 20% and sometimes more in some patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

“The cost rate decreases with an increase in total net immigration because immigration occurs at relatively young ages, thereby increasing the number of covered workers earlier than the number of beneficiaries,” the trustees report.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026

After what feels like many hours, the boat gradually decreases the violent rocking and all is quiet again.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Including deductions, the bank’s CET1 ratio, a measure of capital strength, decreased to 13.9% at June 30 from 14.2% a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

In June, the number of active listings decreased 16% in Manhattan and 0.4% in Brooklyn from the previous year, according to real-estate company the Corcoran Group.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

The government delegation in Madrid said on X early Saturday that overnight conditions had "greatly aided the fight against the wildfires, which advanced little and decreased in intensity".

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Feature film shoots were down 20% in the second quarter compared to last year, while TV production decreased by 30%.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The Planck formula did not zoom off to infinity as the wavelength decreased; instead of having the energy get bigger and bigger as the wavelength goes down, it got smaller and smaller again.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The figures show the disease is decreasing slightly among older adults – who still make up the largest proportion of new diagnoses.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

It said "rough diamond trading conditions are expected to remain challenging in the near-term" with production decreasing and several producers closing mines.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The agency blamed the financial distress on decreasing mail and package volumes while its labor and employee benefits costs have increased significantly.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Despite a significant proportion of American births to single mothers, the number of unmarried women giving birth has actually been decreasing for the past decade, with the decline largely driven by teenagers and working-class women.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

On one of the shelves, Mariam saw a collection of identical wooden dolls, arranged in a line in order of decreasing size.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini