step down

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Still, revenue fell by roughly $678 million from the prior quarter, given Covid seasonality and a step-down in vaccination rates from 2025, Tsai noted.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

Conventional step-down converters often struggle when dealing with large differences between input and output voltage.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

“The membership trajectory is tracking very nicely in line with our expectations, including that big step-down from January to February,” she said.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

It was her fourth such stay, and the first one the county had agreed should be followed by a step-down program, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

The one just described is, moreover, a "step-down" transformer, since it lowers the voltage, to distinguish it from "step-up" transformers, which raise the voltage.

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