subsiding 1 of 2

present participle of subside

subsiding

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of subsiding
Adjective
Hurricane conditions are occurring within the warning area in Cuba but expected to begin subsiding this afternoon. Miami Herald Hurricane Bot, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025 Dray also highlighted Honeywell’s strong and enduring core businesses, which subsiding headwinds from here should allow the market to focus better on. Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025 Land is subsiding in the Ranegras Plain basin and groundwater is declining faster than the rate of replenishment, the Arizona Department of Water Resources informed residents gathered in Brenda at the Desert Gold RV Resort. Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Permafrost is also thawing, land is subsiding, and sea-level rise is adding to the risk. Rick Thoman, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025 From the Luddites smashing looms in 19th-century England to autoworkers walking out over the introduction of robots to the factory floor in the 1980s, resistance has flared before either being crushed or subsiding, giving way to the new economies and social orders the technologies ushered in. Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025 During the recent measles outbreak centered in Texas, the Pandemic Center’s data contradicted Kennedy’s assertions that the crisis was subsiding, Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of the Pandemic Center, told me. Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025 The totals included two new records, coinciding with a subsiding Middle Tennessee heat wave. Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025 The city is subsiding by more than 3 millimetres a year, and even in the United Nations’ best-case climate scenario, a third of the metropolis could be underwater or uninhabitable by 2050. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsiding
Verb
  • That’s due to home price growth that is mostly flat or slightly declining because of decreasing demand and increasing supply, according to the National Association of Home Builders.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This reflectivity is known as albedo, and Earth’s overall albedo has been decreasing for decades.
    Ryan Green, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This pattern of visits from Americans of steadily diminishing rank (watch for a visit from a deputy director of the Fish and Wildlife Service in mid-January) suggests the opposite of sustained attention.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Hormone therapy is often an effective option for menopausal women who are experiencing these uncomfortable symptoms due to the diminishing levels of ovarian hormones.
    Essence, Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Contract options exercised for 4 The club exercised contract options on Stephen Afrifa, Zorhan Bassong, Jansen Miller and John Pulskamp, while declining options for Tim Leibold, Nemanja Radoja, Ryan Schewe, Shelton and Mason Toye.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • However, her cousin the followed up, and the OP wrote back declining the invite.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In effect, farmers in rural America have warned of an impending economic crisis from the compounding factors of losing their top export market, falling crop prices and high costs.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
  • With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the second quarter, while many fast-food rivals reported shrinking sales, Taco Bell reported same-store sales growth of 4%.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But shrinking pixels isn’t simple.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • His team were the dominant side throughout Saturday’s game, starting steadily before easing through the gears.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The reading brought a sigh of relief, easing concerns that the economy was facing a double whammy of a softening labor market with reaccelerating inflation.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Rising drug and hospital costs are often cited as major culprits for rising health insurance costs, and neither shows signs of ebbing.
    Phil Galewitz, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025

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