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Recent Examples of downslide
Solar action should start to ease, however, with the 11-year solar cycle finally on the downslide.
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Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Economic downslide Once a regional beacon of democracy and prosperity, Venezuela began a steep political and economic decline in the 2010s.
—Mie Hoejris Dahl, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2025
This downslide amplifies an economic correction in the live space, following a years-long explosion of business post-Covid.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
Tim Lammers Snow White’s opening weekend projection has been on the downslide for about a month.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
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Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Economic downslide Once a regional beacon of democracy and prosperity, Venezuela began a steep political and economic decline in the 2010s.
—Mie Hoejris Dahl, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2025
This downslide amplifies an economic correction in the live space, following a years-long explosion of business post-Covid.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
Tim Lammers Snow White’s opening weekend projection has been on the downslide for about a month.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downslide
Noun
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The writers most affected by the industry downturn are the ones who couldn’t afford private school in the first place.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
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Prior administration has proactively refunded taxpayers in past misfortune and calamity events, and/or major economic downturns.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
Noun
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The entire Mets lineup has been marred in an uncharacteristic slump, but in the bottom of the fourth inning on Tuesday night at Citi Field, Juan Soto uncorked a very characteristic home run.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Few buyers Despite seemingly noteworthy discounts, there’s a long-term slump in condo sales.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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According to Gary’s 2025 Public Safety Report, the city’s homicide rate is its lowest since 1970, and fatal shootings decreased from 133 incidents in 2024 to 101 in 2025, which is a 24% decrease.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The decrease in students also means a decrease in state funding for next school year.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Apr. 2026
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Over the last decade, the parish began to lose these buildings to age, mold and deterioration.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 28,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Swiss Eugen Bleuler, a follower of Kraepelin, replaced the term dementia praecox, which implied hopeless deterioration, with the softer term schizophrenia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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This stock was a disaster from May 2025 through the November lows near $48, losing roughly half its value in a grinding downtrend.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
27 Apr. 2026
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These experts also invariably forecast a sharp downtrend in the inflation curve once the conflict ends.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Officials said the chaotic incident quickly triggered a multi-agency pursuit, prompting officers to deploy tire-deflation devices along a highway before the situation escalated into a brief foot chase outside of Denver.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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My poor, wan mother, wizened by her abrupt deflation, ill-prepared for such a burst of fury in her orderly existence, did try to sate me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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For example, certain psychiatric illnesses have been shown to cause atrophy, or shrinkage, of parts of the brain.—
Eric J. Nestler,
STAT,
28 Apr. 2026
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Air drying is best to prevent shrinkage, but combining it with a low-heat dryer cycle minimizes wrinkles.—
Olivia McIntosh,
Martha Stewart,
27 Apr. 2026
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This is the diminution of American power, the erosion of American power, and Trump is doing it willfully, with no strategic idea in his head.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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In both films, the effect is of a diminution, a depersonalization—not to say, a desecration of the experience of horror that the documentary element embodies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Downslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downslide. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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