drying up

present participle of dry up

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of drying up The company filed for bankruptcy in 2020 as travel all but halted during the coronavirus pandemic, drying up demand for rental cars. Robert Ferris, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025 Much of that work is getting private and public funding, even in a time when government spending on science is drying up, because the discoveries could fuel quantum computing, which is widely viewed as a potential growth industry over the next few decades. Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025 Stored this way, limes should last for about a month or longer with wrinkling or drying up. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025 And yet those pipelines may be drying up. Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025 Farther north, the San Carlos Reservoir is on the verge of drying up, the victim of unceasing demand for the water and unceasing drought. Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Beyond efforts to convenience investors their drugs are safe and effective, venture capital funding is drying up. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025 But with prices consistently uncompetitive, demand scant, and government incentives in the US and elsewhere drying up, there’s a growing perception in energy circles that the hydrogen bubble has burst. Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025 With federal incentives slashed and funding for renewable projects drying up, the burden of clean energy leadership has shifted squarely onto Sacramento. Josh Becker, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drying up
shutting up
Verb
  • Sky News is shutting up shop on its dedicated business show after more than a decade.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Drying up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drying%20up. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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