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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
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 Breezy winds return on Tuesday after subsiding somewhat on Monday. — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 2 May 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 Police said the ice conditions subsiding and the low tide conditions made for a much easier search, which involved multiple drones. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 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
  • The researchers’ models suggest that areas near the escarpment could have lost as much as 8 kilometers of rock, with erosion decreasing farther away from the ancient cliff.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • How Perimenopause Affects Bones and Muscle Perimenopause typically begins in a woman’s late 40s or early 50s and lasts about seven years, marked by decreasing estrogen, according to PennState Health.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of decreasing
Verb
  • Several Gulf countries have already announced plans to expand or build new pipeline capacity to evade the Strait of Hormuz, likely diminishing its importance as a chokepoint within several years.
    — Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2026
  • But each step up the sanctions ladder brings greater diplomatic costs — and diminishing certainty that additional economic damage will translate into political concessions.
    — Magdalena Del Valle, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of diminishing
Verb
  • The Swift Observatory has been observing the cosmos for more than two-decades, but its rapidly declining orbit has put it in jeopardy of reentering Earth's atmosphere and burning up.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In addition, authorities criticized John and Patsy for declining formal police interviews for several months.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of declining
Verb
  • Peltz weighs deal for Wendy’s Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund is assembling a group that could bid to take Wendy’s private as the chain faces declining sales, falling traffic, and restaurant closures.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The boring rosters, the passive-aggressive press conferences, the endless parade of mediocre seasons — cresting and falling with an inexplicable 2021 and 2026 — has been brutal to watch.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of falling
Verb
  • Unlike American sports, where franchises are locked into profitable leagues, there will always be the threat of relegation and shrinking revenues that trouble those considering entry into the English game.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The most significant signal from the baijiu company’s latest financial report is that the value of Moutai in business negotiations is shrinking, said Dongfang Li, an independent stock analyst.
    — Evelyn Cheng,Jenny Lee, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of shrinking
Verb
  • Why recruiting became political The Pentagon is emerging from the yearslong recruiting slump that followed the COVID-19 pandemic, easing one of the military's most persistent political headaches that drew bipartisan anxiety on Capitol Hill.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Clark and Floyd strike up a deep friendship, easing their suburban loneliness.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 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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