declinations

plural of declination
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for declinations
Noun
  • Associated Press What To Know The court emphasized that the law underpinning the travel ban does not authorize such visa refusals and declined to defer to the State Department's historical practice, citing Supreme Court precedent limiting agency discretion.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Durov was forced out as CEO in 2014 after several arguments with the Russian state over censorship and refusals to hand over user data.
    Ryan Hogg, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois led the declines, while just a few additional states saw price drops.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This research is notable for being one of the first long-term studies to quantify insect declines in a pristine environment relatively untouched by humans.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But despite two rejections from Julie, Todd persisted.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Musleh has gone through the rejections trying to find a pattern, and found that doctors who had previously served on missions in Gaza were more likely to be rejected than first-timers.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Her plaintive denials on screen are robbed of any credibility by an inescapable sense of overwhelming resentment.
    Daniel Jonah Wolpert, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes, when patients and doctors shame insurers online, denials get overturned.
    Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Human sequences depicted various runs and also ascents, descents, lifts, throws, wrestling, dances, a child crawling, and a woman pouring a bucket of water over another woman.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2019
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“Declinations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/declinations. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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