downtrend
Example Sentences
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However, the outlook for the energy sector depends on oil prices, which have been in a downtrend but on the verge of testing support at the $60–$62 zone.
From MarketWatch
Also, exceptions to the downtrend for Big Tech, Nvidia’s support for another leg up for AI and the case for taking a bus instead of flying.
Deutsche Bank AG this week warned of a structural downtrend for the dollar in the coming years, which could knock the U.S. currency to its weakest level in more than a decade against the euro.
From Los Angeles Times
Should that downtrend hold through the rest of the year, he added, it will amount to the "largest decline in violence that America has seen since we started tracking it."
From Salon
Because violent crime appears to be on a downtrend toward pre-pandemic levels, which saw a 2018 and 2019 murder rate of 5.2 per 100,000 people, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program's 2022 estimations, Piquero argued local, state and federal efforts to prevent and reduce crime are more important now than before.
From Salon
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