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Recent Examples of fade (away)
Noun
The Celtics then scored the first seven points of the second quarter, with Pritchard’s midrange fadeaway pulling them even at 34-34. Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 11 Jan. 2025 His 30 points against the Hawks also pushed him past Michael Jordan for the most 30-point games in NBA history (563), with his 30th point poetically coming on a turnaround fadeaway. Jovan Buha, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025 Advertisement Collins, in a 20-point effort, made a tougher-than-nails fadeaway shot to tie the score with four seconds left to force overtime. Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 His one-legged, impossible fadeaway jumper at the buzzer had missed, just like so many other Celtics shots on this night. Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fade (away)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fade (away)
Noun
  • To combat this, summer gasoline blends are formulated with lower RVP to reduce evaporation.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In more rural areas, however, adaptation might require moving outdoor work hours to after sunset, when temperatures drop, or covering irrigation ditches to avoid excess evaporation that could leave crops parched during droughts.
    Alice Hill, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Alvarez’s passing has significantly improved since his spell at Manchester City.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Shapiro points toward the band’s history in the city, noting that Garcia and the Dead’s last concert was in Chicago a month before Garcia’s passing.
    Ethan Millman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • We’re done watching cash vanish while our kids go without.
    Ryan J. Taylor, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Michelle Citron Sugerman, who later tended to elevators and escalators at Sears Tower, then the tallest building in the world, wonders if the small forays that women have made in the construction trades since the 1980s will simply vanish.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • It’s evaporated faster than morning dew in the desert.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The money the couple saved for a down payment on a home has evaporated into attorneys fees and savings to pay a bond for her release, if she's given that chance.
    Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • According to Power Plant Efficiency, natural gas and oil power plants operate between 33% - 60% and 30% respectively due to heat dissipation.
    Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • While diamond's heat dissipation is widely recognized, achieving better charge transport has been the bottleneck.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • When the world is falling apart, all the illogical perceptions fall away, leaving only what matters standing, and that which matters is no longer veiled by those perceptions.
    Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Obi Toppin drilled his seventh triple of the night, this one falling away from the corner, to put the Pacers up with 3.5 seconds to play in the extra session.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Before the housing crisis hit in 2008, banks were giving out easy housing loans.
    David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Following an increasingly popular trend on TikTok that suggests Krispy Kreme will give out free doughnuts if a student got A's on their report card, PEOPLE reached out to the popular bakery chain to get to the truth.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • As the intensity of this debate has tapered off over time, it’s given way to hindsight.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The main focal point of the resort is the hotel building, with an asymmetrical shape that tapers off at both ends.
    Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025

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“Fade (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fade%20%28away%29. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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