in terminal decline
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: getting worse without any chance to improve
The business is in terminal decline.
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Taking on the challenge of a business in terminal decline—his job was to reboot Brooks Brothers for a fast-changing consumer.
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Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024
And with the ratings and advertising revenue returns on those mainstream U.S. series in terminal decline as Canadians move online for TV content, Rogers is looking to turn its Canadian TV assets, including Sportsnet and its steady diet of NHL games, into a giant digital sports platform.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
By time the infection is obvious, the palm is in terminal decline.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
The United States’ willingness to inflict and absorb economic pain to counter Putin’s aggression—and its ability to rally its allies to do the same—powerfully contradicted Beijing’s belief that America was in terminal decline.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
The company has bet big on building a healthy and profitable streaming business before its traditional TV networks, which are lucrative but in terminal decline, fade out.
—Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
Nonetheless, any deal would dramatically alter the TV news landscape, further shrinking a business that is in terminal decline.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Constant political and economic turmoil has reinforced the sense that this once great power is in terminal decline.
—Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2023
But clashes over them have become much more acute, as China’s military and economic power have grown, and as Mr. Xi and his aides perceive the United States to be in terminal decline.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 19 June 2023
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Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 18 Sep. 2024
And with the ratings and advertising revenue returns on those mainstream U.S. series in terminal decline as Canadians move online for TV content, Rogers is looking to turn its Canadian TV assets, including Sportsnet and its steady diet of NHL games, into a giant digital sports platform.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
By time the infection is obvious, the palm is in terminal decline.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
The United States’ willingness to inflict and absorb economic pain to counter Putin’s aggression—and its ability to rally its allies to do the same—powerfully contradicted Beijing’s belief that America was in terminal decline.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
The company has bet big on building a healthy and profitable streaming business before its traditional TV networks, which are lucrative but in terminal decline, fade out.
—Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2023
Nonetheless, any deal would dramatically alter the TV news landscape, further shrinking a business that is in terminal decline.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Constant political and economic turmoil has reinforced the sense that this once great power is in terminal decline.
—Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2023
But clashes over them have become much more acute, as China’s military and economic power have grown, and as Mr. Xi and his aides perceive the United States to be in terminal decline.
—David Pierson, New York Times, 19 June 2023
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