descents

plural of descent
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as in dips
the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude the airplane began its gradual descent to the landing field

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Recent Examples of descents Every year, these men and women gather on a sprawling ridgeline near Zion National Park in Utah, and proceed to see who can ride the least rideable-looking line down a mountain bigger than your last 5 descents, combined. Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2025 People have tried ski descents from Everest in the past, but none of them have completed the run without bottled oxygen. Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025 Grippy waterproof shoes and a good rain jacket are essential on this one for mud, streams, and steep, slippery descents. Madison Chapman, Outside, 17 Sep. 2025 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, 23 May 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for descents
Noun
  • Pick up fresh pasta, sushi, juices, dips, and salads to take home, or order a pizza from the shop’s in-house restaurant Cooper’s Wood-Fired Kitchen.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Consider using dips Maybe your child wants to try something new, but taking a whole bite of a new dish is super scary to them.
    Taylor Grothe, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The mission, the fourth of 2025, would also be Starship's first flight since May 27 amid a year plagued by explosive demises for the vehicle.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But a good time in enviable vacation spots is guaranteed, with ghoulish demises for many principal figures here served up like caviar on sashimi.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other mishaps, including near-misses and runway incursions, have contributed to an erosion of Americans’ confidence about flying.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The group, though greatly weakened after two years of Israeli bombardment and ground incursions, has been gradually reasserting itself since the ceasefire took hold.
    Maayan Lubell, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Kabul wants to hedge against its deteriorating relationship with its former patron Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of harboring a separate but allied group that has carried out deadly attacks inside Pakistan.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But Raducanu’s identity has been harder to maintain — or even define — against the best and most devastating attacks on the WTA Tour.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • New additives like preservatives, flavorings and vitamins were infused into them, and they were packaged in novel ways to withstand hard helicopter drops, wet beach landings and days at the bottom of rucksacks.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Drag performance, with its abundance of wigs, campy makeup and death drops, is ready-made for Halloween.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • For Parisian Jews in 1941 and 1942, these thefts were compounded by a cascade of other degradations, including the loss of distinguished positions at the Sorbonne, in banking, science, and medicine, with more devastation to come.
    Christopher C. Gorham September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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  • Without Allen and his ability to stretch the field, the Bills' downfalls on defense would likely not have led to a 4-1 record.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some of those mistakes eventually cause their downfalls.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Descents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descents. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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