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Recent Examples of downtrend
Maton isn’t a trusted veteran on the downtrend who could be had for cheap like some other recent additions.
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Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
These fears are not unfounded; the prolonged downtrend in global birth rates (or, rather, fertility rates—more on that later) could drive depopulation, fuel labor shortages, and create aging populations dependent on ever-shrinking generations of young workers.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Apr. 2026
Likewise, CrowdStrike, an investor favorite in the industry, has been in a downtrend, losing 16% of its value so far this year.
—R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent history suggests this could be the start of another downtrend if the Knicks don’t stop the bleeding quickly.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2026
These fears are not unfounded; the prolonged downtrend in global birth rates (or, rather, fertility rates—more on that later) could drive depopulation, fuel labor shortages, and create aging populations dependent on ever-shrinking generations of young workers.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Apr. 2026
Likewise, CrowdStrike, an investor favorite in the industry, has been in a downtrend, losing 16% of its value so far this year.
—R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent history suggests this could be the start of another downtrend if the Knicks don’t stop the bleeding quickly.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downtrend
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Lane and Milesi-Ferretti found that countries with pre-crisis external deficits furthest beyond what economic fundamentals could explain tended to suffer the deepest downturns afterward.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Houston is 7-9 in its past 16 games despite the downturn in offense.—
Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
10 May 2026
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And a chronic shortage of homes for sale nationally, due partly to years of below-average new home construction, has helped prop up home prices even in a multiyear sales slump.—
Alex Veiga,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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The hard-right Reform UK party was the main beneficiary of Labour’s slump.—
Isa Soares,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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That worsens overcapacity and deflation, while preventing that capital from going to healthier borrowers.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Officials said the chaotic incident quickly triggered a multi-agency pursuit, prompting officers to deploy tire-deflation devices along a highway before the situation escalated into a brief foot chase outside of Denver.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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This is a significant decrease from more than 4 million acres of hazardous vegetation work completed during the last year of the Biden administration.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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This marked a further decrease compared to Q2, during which revenues fell 3%.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Vogue,
7 May 2026
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Norman Powell has visibly slowed a step this season and has been turning the ball over at an alarming rate and will be on the downslide.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2026
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The Mexicans had run a successful World Cup only 16 years prior, while the United States, desperate to give high-level soccer a boost with the North American Soccer League on the downslide.—
Michael Lewis,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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For example, certain psychiatric illnesses have been shown to cause atrophy, or shrinkage, of parts of the brain.—
Eric J. Nestler,
STAT,
28 Apr. 2026
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Air drying is best to prevent shrinkage, but combining it with a low-heat dryer cycle minimizes wrinkles.—
Olivia McIntosh,
Martha Stewart,
27 Apr. 2026
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However, most others require a lowering of expectations and full use of something almost all humans lack — patience.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Part of the lowering of the times is about improvements in training, nutrition and technique.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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This is the diminution of American power, the erosion of American power, and Trump is doing it willfully, with no strategic idea in his head.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2026
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In both films, the effect is of a diminution, a depersonalization—not to say, a desecration of the experience of horror that the documentary element embodies.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Downtrend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downtrend. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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