- present participle of weaken.
weakening
Example Sentences
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Weakening consumer demand and wage growth argues for caution, while rising inflation expectations and businesses passing on higher costs to consumers and the broader economy argue for higher rates.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026
Weakening the NIH could undermine America’s place in fast-moving fields like AI-biotech research, narrowing its global influence over the very rules and norms that will govern the future.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Weakening the ELN would require cooperation with Caracas, Colombian officials and analysts said, but Venezuela’s military simply isn’t equipped to take on the group.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
"Weakening encryption, undermining privacy and introducing the mass surveillance of people's private communications is not the way forward," the open letter warns.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023
Weakening of religious faith, 4 Weapons deposited with the dead, 145 sqq.; deposited at grave, 211; of dead broken, 399 Weather regulated by ghosts and spirits, 384 sq. —— -doctors, 385 sq.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir
