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 This extra room also comes in handy on technical descents where the foot tends to smash into the front of the shoe. Will Porter, Outside, 13 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
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Noun
  • Some common examples include push-ups, bench presses, chest presses and dips.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • An adjacent storefront will eventually be stocked with wine, home goods and take-home versions of their dishes, such as pimento cheese and smoked catfish dips.
    Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 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
  • European leaders strongly condemned the drone incursions and demanded new sanctions against Moscow.
    Barbara Erling, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The country has also said the UN Security Council will convene an emergency meeting to discuss the drone incursions.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Democrats like Bell continue to defend Israel from progressive attacks.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Terrorists expanded their use of the internet for a wide range of activities, including planning attacks, radicalization and recruitment, propaganda dissemination, and fundraising.
    Richard Frankel, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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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  • According to Champo, apply three to four drops onto the fingertips and massage where needed.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Still, big gains can be followed by sharp reversals—so how has FFIV behaved after prior drops?
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some of those mistakes eventually cause their downfalls.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The lack of effective clock management was one of the downfalls of the Bears’ last coach, Matt Eberflus.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The simultaneous invasions by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II in 1939 nearly led to the erasure of Poland, which went on to survive after the conflict as a Soviet satellite state until transitioning to democracy in 1989 and joining NATO a decade later.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This time producer Brad Ingelsby tapped Mark Ruffalo as a depressed and traumatized FBI agent leading a task force investigating a series of home invasions targeting drug dens in the area.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Descents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descents. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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