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But go back earlier, and the talk starts to dwindle.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

But this year the Rockies had the least snow on record, and they’ve watched springs dry up and creeks dwindle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Ranchers, meanwhile, are seeing their hay supplies dwindle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

While check usage has continued to dwindle, experts say they still have a foothold in the modern economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

The group that joined us began to dwindle away.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

Markets are focused on the rupee as it dwindles toward the psychological breakwater of 100 to the dollar.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

As time dwindles, the Internal Revenue Service has received over 1 million fewer income-tax returns compared to the same point a year ago.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

In public health terms, elimination means that a disease has become rare enough, and immunity to it widespread enough, that local transmission dwindles quickly if a case or two emerges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

A great stair should lead to something great, but this one dwindles away in the upper stories without fulfilling its mighty promise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The tunnel I’m in dwindles to two feet, and I turn back.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

With far less snowmelt than usual feeding the Colorado River, inflows dwindled, and the second-largest reservoir in the United States fell to record-low levels in late August and early September.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Except my little freezer stash of homemade breakfast burritos had also dwindled to nothing, and I knew exactly what Monday morning would look like without some intervention: Wake up.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

According to Gus Hall’s obituary in the New York Times in 2000, Communist Party enrollment “had dwindled to about 3,000, down from a peak of about 66,000 in 1939.”

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

He spent the next decade moving from safe-house to safe-house, first protected by a loyal team of bodyguards and, when they dwindled away, by his family.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

The trail, which had seemed large at first, had dwindled until she couldn’t find it anymore.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Some condominium HOAs have run into trouble recently, as MarketWatch has reported, in part due to skyrocketing insurance costs and dwindling financial reserves.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Repeated closures of parking in Market Square by the commissioners in previous years was cited by her as a significant reason for shop closures due to dwindling footfall in recent years.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

And a dwindling number of attorneys who specialize in death penalty cases meant 70% of condemned inmates did not have a lawyer at the end of last year, according to a state report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Facing a dwindling pipeline of 18-year-olds, schools are increasingly agreeing to admit applicants based on a handful of criteria like high school transcripts—a free process that skips required essays, questions about extracurriculars and standardized tests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Her magic had been dwindling for years, but there was no denying that it was happening more quickly now.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill