die (down)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for die (down)
Verb
  • The longest length tapers off mid-calf on a five-foot-ten model and is slightly longer than 45 inches in length.
    Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2025
  • In the Los Angeles-area, the rain that has triggered flooding and mudslides since the weekend mostly tapered off by Monday afternoon.
    Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Africa’s lion population has decreased by nearly half over the past quarter century, according to the African Wildlife Foundation, and the lion is regionally extinct in 15 African countries.
    Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In other second-quarter statistics, there was a 50.9 percent gross margin rate, representing an increase of 110 basis points year-over-year; inventory decreased 1.3 percent last quarter to 404.6 million euros.
    David Moin, WWD, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The conversation, moderated by SHOF inductees Nile Rodgers (SHOF chairman) and Paul Williams (a member of the SHOF board of directors) will become available on Monday (Feb. 10) at 10 a.m.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Here are some of the products that could be most impacted: Housing Home prices shot up in 2020 and have barely moderated since, but there’s more pain to come for potential buyers, experts say.
    Alana Semuels, TIME, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • This has less to do with a diminishing talent pool than a changing industry where the lines between Corman’s world and Hollywood at large became more sharply drawn.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Although his output had diminished, from an availability and form perspective, Villa valued him higher than Douglas Luiz or Diaby and with greater scope for improvement.
    Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • By most measures, political violence subsided after January 2021, in part because hundreds of participants in the January 6 attack were convicted and imprisoned.
    STEVEN LEVITSKY, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ultimately, the north winds subsided and hundreds of firefighters and volunteers got the fire under control.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • There’s reason to believe that Tesla’s growth in China — and thus Musk’s need to stay in its government’s good graces — may lessen over time.
    Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Now is not the time for Colorado to lessen its support for immigrants without legal status who have proven themselves to be good members of the community even though their arrival was unlawful.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2025
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