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adjective

as in ebbing

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verb

present participle of subside
as in decreasing
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually as the noise of the siren subsided, I was able to fall back to sleep

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Recent Examples of subsiding
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 Key Background The crisis appeared to be subsiding somewhat Friday as Spanish authorities said a majority of the 60,000 people who crossed into Ceuta from Morocco over the past several days had returned home. — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 India, one of the world's most prolific IPO markets, was gearing up for issues worth $50 billion as tension in the Middle East were subsiding. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 9 July 2026 The afternoon started tough until the wind kept subsiding, and players began taking aim at flags. — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026 Weather service and public safety officials said the safest thing to do is to stay away from the beaches altogether until the southern swells start subsiding. — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 But there were no signs that the conflict was subsiding. — ABC News, 11 Mar. 2026 But, by the end of May, the issue was not subsiding. — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 7 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsiding
  1. waning
  2. decreasing
  3. diminishing
  4. declining
  5. falling
  6. shrinking
  7. easing
  8. ebbing
Adjective
  • Even better, the peak of this shower, which should produce on average between 8 to 10 meteors per hour, will arrive under dark skies thanks to a meager waning crescent moon.
    — Michael d'Estries, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
Definition of waning
Verb
  • School library jobs remain vulnerable to budget cuts, and the number of school librarians across the state has been decreasing since 2010.
    — Kafi Kumasi, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Huang said this week that CoreWeave doesn't need Nvidia's backstop and that the neocloud's cost of capital is decreasing.
    — Kif Leswing,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of decreasing
Verb
  • Kikuchi makes Haru’s occasionally mortifying romantic pursuit both funny and affecting, embracing the character’s impulsive, sometimes ridiculous behavior without diminishing the depth of her loss.
    — Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The good news is that its strongest winds and heaviest rain will remain over the Atlantic, with impacts along our coastline gradually diminishing.
    — Kate Bilo, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of diminishing
Verb
  • China was once a key profit center for Volkswagen, but now the company faces declining demand for cars there on top of fierce price competition from local carmakers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Search growth is declining, and Google is placing all its eggs in the AI basket.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of declining
Verb
  • The Chiefs had a historically bad loss last weekend while falling 20-3 to the Seahawks in Seattle.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Think of dominoes falling, not checkers hopscotching across the board.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of falling
Verb
  • Neither candidate reached the majority needed to win outright, forcing both campaigns to compete for a shrinking pool of undecided voters while trying to mobilize their supporters in a country deeply divided over its political future.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Demographic data expose disparities that raw numbers can obscure and show whether those gaps are growing or shrinking.
    — Julie Morita, Time, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of shrinking
Verb
  • Lula can point to low unemployment and easing inflation, but those indicators have not changed perceptions for households struggling with everyday prices.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Mortgage rates fell this week for the first time since late August, easing some of the pressure on prospective homebuyers facing higher borrowing costs on home loans.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of easing
Verb
  • The autocracies are surging, and democracies ebbing.
    — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • That number has fluctuated from a high of 115,000 in May to a low of about 16,000 on the day before this column was published, ebbing and flowing as tickets were purchased, new batches were released and FIFA (maybe) pulled back others.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 10 June 2026
Definition of ebbing

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