letting up 1 of 2

adjective

as in dying (down)

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letting up

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verb

present participle of let up
1
as in ending
to come to an end the rain let up just as we reached the house

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2
as in decreasing
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually the windmill slowed down as the wind let up

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Recent Examples of letting up
Verb
With protests against the moves beginning to take shape, the crackdowns show no signs of letting up, even as international attention and condemnation begins to pour in. — Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026 But on this Labor Day, working people are struggling amid an affordability crisis that shows no signs of letting up. — Mario Cilento, New York Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026 But the divisiveness surrounding the WNBA doesn’t appear to be letting up any time soon. — Annie Costabile, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 The heat dome that has produced these extremes is showing no signs of letting up — at least not until early September. — Ben Noll, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2026 After already scoring the best domestic weekend in box-office history, Spider-Man is not letting up. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026 Shifts in geopolitics, mercurial trade policies and evolving compliance requirements have been reshaping global sourcing, and the changes show no signs of letting up. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2026 Cornyn, Tillis let up John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, the Republican senators who've been withholding their support to fully confirm Blanche as attorney general, are letting up. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026 On every metric—sales, profit, assets and market value—these bellwether companies, 787 from Asia, collectively scaled to record levels, most likely reaping gains from not letting up. — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for letting up
  1. ending
  2. decreasing
  3. stopping
  4. subsiding
  5. concluding
  6. diminishing
  7. expiring
  8. tapering off
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  • And most experts don’t think there will be much relief for homebuyers in the next year or so, absent some big changes, such as the war in Iran ending or oil prices dramatically falling.
    — Zach Halaschak, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
  • That set up Ollie Gordon II’s TD run late in the third quarter, ending Miami’s 15-possession touchdown drought.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of ending
Verb
  • Adjustable mattresses were meant to make some of that guesswork easier, but the category has long been associated with airbeds that change firmness by increasing or decreasing pressure inside the mattress.
    — Malana VanTyler, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Standard gas pressure spreads out across the rock formations, homogenizing subterranean forces and actually decreasing the risk of the fault slipping over time.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of decreasing
Verb
  • Executive chef Gil Dumoulin often makes the rounds in the dining room, stopping to discuss the food with guests, which is a nice touch.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • This is not an argument for fear or for stopping useful innovation.
    — Babajide Ojuola, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of stopping
Verb
  • Multiple Kelvin waves These waves can bring elevated sea levels for weeks at a time, eventually subsiding before the next wave hits.
    — Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Two of them coincide with areas where satellite radar shows that the ground is actively subsiding.
    — Nolan Roth, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of subsiding
Verb
  • The sportswear giant announced the end of their relationship last month, concluding nearly two decades of sponsorship, which began when Mbappé was just nine years old.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Alyssa Lareau, who left the Civil Rights Division’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section last year after concluding that anti-discrimination laws such as Title VI were no longer being faithfully enforced, was similarly torn.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of concluding
Verb
  • Between terrorism and global warming and diminishing natural resources, the world is out of balance.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Basic tasks like summarization, translation and drafting offer diminishing differentiation as tools become widespread.
    — Fabio Caversan, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of diminishing
Verb
  • Specifically, that trader sold 5,000 of the 39-strike puts expiring in mid-January for $695,000, and an equal amount of the 42-strike calls expiring the same day for $400,000.
    — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Versant and Verizon have come to terms on a renewal of the companies’ distribution agreement, a move that means the media company, in its first year since being spun off from Comcast, has renewed all such deals expiring in 2026.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of expiring
Verb
  • Al-Deek says relief can come from a few different directions — hormone replacement therapy, switching to a different antidepressant, adjusting your dose or tapering off the medication altogether.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Rain chances continue into Thursday, with storm activity tapering off in the evening.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of tapering off

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