as in dying (away or down or out)
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drying up
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By 1971, the demand for the dollar drying up and gold soaring privately, Nixon acted.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025 -
Strained by industrial and agricultural demand and mismanagement, and insufficiently replenished by rainfall and snow melt, three-quarters of the world's population now live in areas where the water is drying up beneath our feet.—
Kelly Parsons,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Blanking (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blanking%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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