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Recent Examples of downslide
Snow White’s opening weekend box office projections have been on a downslide for the past month.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Data released by the NBS on Friday showed new home prices in China remained unchanged between November and December 2024—putting a stop to a downslide that has been going on since June 2023.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Careers go up and down, and mine was on a bit of a downslide at that point.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
This time, the downslide affected more than just the big tech names as nine out of 10 Dow categories and 10 out of 11 S&P 500 sectors saw losses.
—Michele Luhn, CNBC, 19 July 2024
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Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Data released by the NBS on Friday showed new home prices in China remained unchanged between November and December 2024—putting a stop to a downslide that has been going on since June 2023.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Careers go up and down, and mine was on a bit of a downslide at that point.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
This time, the downslide affected more than just the big tech names as nine out of 10 Dow categories and 10 out of 11 S&P 500 sectors saw losses.
—Michele Luhn, CNBC, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downslide
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Like other traditional media companies, Paramount — parent of CBS, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and BET — has seen longer-term downturns in traditional advertising and distribution revenue as pay-TV subscribers shift toward streaming.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2025
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Algorithmic programs developed to monitor such activity took these moves as signs of further downside risk, further amplifying what already was a dramatic and widespread downturn.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Ohtani, though, doesn’t believe pitching has anything to do with his extended slump at the plate.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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The American whiskey industry is on the rocks, with anti-tariff backlash hurting exports and exacerbating the strains of a years-long slump in domestic demand.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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One study in British Columbia found that sea star wasting disease led to a 311 percent increase in the population of medium-sized sea urchins and a 30 percent decrease in kelp density over two years.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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The increase in population growth last year drove the neutral rate higher, the decrease in population growth this year is driving it lower, and that means that policy was much looser last year than people thought.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Whitney Portal will observe sharp deterioration in conditions with extreme danger to hikers and campers unprepared for the winter weather.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Casualties among Gaza’s police force during the two-year conflict have contributed to a deterioration in security, with looting of aid becoming commonplace.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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While the downtrend is still intact, price is reaching a level where a mean-reversion bounce could set up.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Supply and demand are coming back into balance in the airline industry, meaning airfares are shooting higher again after an extended downtrend.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
16 Aug. 2025
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China is dealing with entrenched deflation, record youth unemployment, and a real estate market that has halved in just four years.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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China’s consumer prices fell more than expected in September, while the deflation in producer prices persisted, underscoring the impact of sluggish domestic demand and trade worries on consumer and business sentiment.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Fed Chair Powell mostly reiterated the case for dropping short-term rates toward neutral while also musing about halting the shrinkage of the Fed balance sheet soon.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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Multiverse’s core business is compressing open-source LLMs with such extreme shrinkage that most of its versions can run on CPUs, or central processing units, of the kind used in smartphones and regular computers, rather than GPUs, or graphics processing units.—
Vivienne Walt,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Maryland has a diminution credit system in which some inmates can earn a reduction in their sentence.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
2 Sep. 2025
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But rather than Xi’s diminution, the recent moves more likely reflect Xi’s continued dominance of the military.—
JONATHAN A. CZIN,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Downslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downslide. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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