in terminal decline

phrase

British

: getting worse without any chance to improve

The business is in terminal decline.

Examples of in terminal decline in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Some scientists think the species was in terminal decline long before human hunting and competition from dingos pushed them out of mainland Australia. — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

The Traitors is a timely reminder of the potency of event television when there is so much handwringing about the medium being in terminal decline. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2026

But the party was badly beaten in 2024, is facing a growing challenge from the anti-immigrant Reform, and may be in terminal decline. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 19 Jan. 2026

The arrests of Mohammadi and Panahi, the mass executions, the checkpoints and blackouts—these are spasms of a system in terminal decline. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 17 Dec. 2025

This 97% decline might suggest the NFT market is in terminal decline, but Finzer sees a more nuanced reality. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025

This will suggest to some that Russian oil production has peaked and is in terminal decline, or at least a plateau, but the evidence is somewhat mixed. — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

Taking on the challenge of a business in terminal decline—his job was to reboot Brooks Brothers for a fast-changing consumer. — Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024

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