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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooling (down)
drying up
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But the main issue — and this has impacted all the major megacap tech stocks over the past few weeks — is that free cash flow is drying up due to ambitious capital expenditure plans.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
17 Feb. 2026 -
Elsewhere, lakes are drying up, and dams are flooding millennia-old villages and historic sites.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Cooling (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooling%20%28down%29. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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