tails (off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of tail (off)
as in peters (out)

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  1. tapers off
  2. vanishes
  3. gives out
  4. evaporates
  5. compresses
  6. contracts
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  • Activity scheduling generally follows daily circadian rhythms, so more intensive experiences are clustered in the mornings, with a smattering in the afternoon that tapers off in time for slow sunset yoga or meditation.
    — Jessica Ritz, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026
  • If gravel tapers off at the edges of your garden, weeds will easily find their way into the soil below and germinate.
    — Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of tapers off
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  • Washington just needs to act before the debt begins to spiral and fiscal space vanishes.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2026
  • As the temperature drops and food vanishes, worker wasps become desperate for calories.
    — Nick Perry, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of vanishes
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  • Sandy praises her crew for performing efficiently under pressure, and gives out the $1,807 each of them earned from a $23,500 tip.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
  • When the air conditioner stops cooling or the water heater gives out, the repair itself is only part of the problem.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of gives out
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  • Scalding criticism evaporates like steam back into an atmosphere that police command.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The idea of animals as slaves of their instincts or mindless automatons evaporates.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of evaporates
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  • Much like an engine compresses fuel before ignition, FLARE first assembles the fuel to high density before delivering a separate, rapid burst of energy to trigger fusion.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • None of that compresses into a 12-month window, no matter how well resourced the effort.
    — Shawn Cole, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of compresses
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  • That’s about $1,000 cheaper than its current lineup, and also the company’s first-ever foldable device that contracts to roughly half its size.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Meet the man saving Nashville’s sick foxes Florida contracts professional python hunters.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
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