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Recent Examples of downward
Adjective
Crime in Milwaukee continued its downward trend in 2025, but homicides remain one of the only exceptions.—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025 The downward trend recently reversed.—Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
Adverb
The tariff rate was revised downward to 20 percent from the initial 37 percent duty implemented in April.—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Oct. 2025 Basically, some hair will be rolled downwards (the most common technique) and some will be rolled upwards.—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for downward
No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.
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David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
The composer also added synths to his orchestral score, as well as bowed metal, where a violin bow is rubbed against metal instruments like a cowbell or a Vibraphone, for when Roz has a particularly intense feeling.
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Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
Last month, an organization representing some of the world’s largest publishers, Digital Content Next (DCN), found that median year-over-year referral traffic from Google Search was down 10% in May and June 2025.
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PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
The move shocked investors and sent KDP shares down 25% upon the announcement.
This was highlighted by the fact that Psyche’s April 2024 message – beamed from a distance of 225 million kilometers – reached Earth at a lowered 25 megabits per second.
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Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
Most commonly that’s expressed as a shrinking number of cable viewers and the lowered subscription and ad revenue that comes with it.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Aug. 2025
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