in decline
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: to become less powerful, wealthy, etc.
There was a general feeling that the country was in decline.
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Their worldwide population is in decline, and the zoo is involved in conservation efforts.
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Adam Tamburin, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Colorado’s Denver/Julesburg Basin is also in decline due largely to oppressive permitting challenges from an increasingly hostile state government.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
And worldwide, insects have been dying off: More than 40 percent of insect species are in decline, according to a 2019 study.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
It’s been axiomatic from time to time, for decades now, that the United States is in decline, and that somebody else—most recently, China—is the ascendant power.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Adam Tamburin, Axios, 12 Mar. 2025
Colorado’s Denver/Julesburg Basin is also in decline due largely to oppressive permitting challenges from an increasingly hostile state government.
—David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
And worldwide, insects have been dying off: More than 40 percent of insect species are in decline, according to a 2019 study.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
It’s been axiomatic from time to time, for decades now, that the United States is in decline, and that somebody else—most recently, China—is the ascendant power.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for in decline
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“In decline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20decline. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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