as in to wear out
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Recent Examples of wear down
Organizations that keep postponing decisions will see their cultures wear down under the strain.
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
These are some of the oldest rocks on the planet—they’ve been heated, squished, melted, and faulted multiple times as Earth went through the growth, collision, and breakup of continents before being worn down by ice and exposed today.
—Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
Heavy loads can also wear down your washing machine faster.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
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Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Moscow has mastered this attritional form of fighting, using a combination of small assault squads, first-person view drones, artillery, and glide bombs to wear down Ukrainian fortifications slowly.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
These are some of the oldest rocks on the planet—they’ve been heated, squished, melted, and faulted multiple times as Earth went through the growth, collision, and breakup of continents before being worn down by ice and exposed today.
—Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
Heavy loads can also wear down your washing machine faster.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wear down
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Hurts wore out a defense without Micah Parsons on touchdown runs of 4 and 8 yards — no legal tush push needed.—
Dan Gelston,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Vermeer and Interlune are considering ways to engineer the machines so parts that wear out can be robotically changed.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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See video … Tune in to the FOX NEWS RUNDOWN PODCAST to break down the murder on the Charlotte light rail and if it could have been prevented.—
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FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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If Tuesday’s revision is on the high end of the estimate, at 900,000 jobs, that would break down to a downward revision of 75,000 jobs per month.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Wear down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wear%20down. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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