declivities

plural of declivity

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for declivities
Noun
  • And the noticeable dips also don’t come for the generations of players who would be expecting to play their peak years for England during wartime either — note the lack of games in the 1940s in the earlier graph.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The company’s stock value has also seen dips in recent months, affecting the overall value of Musk’s shares.
    Connor Greene, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The second series investigates deaths involving apparent falls from heights — examining whether victims were pushed from locations like balconies, cliffs and bridges.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Then, as evening falls, stroll along the canals or watch the sun melt into Øresund’s horizon—tracing wind turbines spinning in silhouette.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This three-day program moves on to teaching more advanced techniques, like left-foot braking, handling ascents and descents, and weight transfer.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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
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