lose steam
idiom
informal
: to lose strength, force, or energy : to slow down
Sales have lost steam in recent weeks.
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Then people lost interest, and the brand began to lose steam (fewer than 200 clubs remain in the U.S.).
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Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
But by the turn of the millennium, Nintendo had begun to lose steam, outsold by Sony’s PlayStation and approaching the 2000s with a bloodied nose.
—Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
The three- and four-minute tracks land all their punches, and the six- and seven-minute workouts never lose steam.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
The second was that Larraín’s particular vision has often skewed too arthouse for Academy voters in the past: Tellingly, both Portman and Stewart came into their seasons pegged as potential powerhouses, only for their films to lose steam over the course of the fall.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
But by the turn of the millennium, Nintendo had begun to lose steam, outsold by Sony’s PlayStation and approaching the 2000s with a bloodied nose.
—Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
The three- and four-minute tracks land all their punches, and the six- and seven-minute workouts never lose steam.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
The second was that Larraín’s particular vision has often skewed too arthouse for Academy voters in the past: Tellingly, both Portman and Stewart came into their seasons pegged as potential powerhouses, only for their films to lose steam over the course of the fall.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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“Lose steam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lose%20steam. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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