wind down
verb
wound down also winded down; winding down; winds down
1
: to draw gradually toward an end
the party was winding down
: to cause a gradual lessening of usually with the intention of bringing to an end
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Examples of wind down in a Sentence
not being one for alcoholic beverages, I prefer to wind down with a cup of tea every night
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As the year winds down, so does investors’ practice of dumping their biggest losers late in the year to realize capital losses and then use them to offset capital gains and save on taxes.
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Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
As his final weeks in the White House wind down, President Joe Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on climate action, finalizing multibillion-dollar clean-energy loans, supporting state-level action on EVs and setting a new national target for greenhouse gas reductions.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Since then, advocates for repealing the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset made a last-ditch lobbying blitz to get the Senate to take it up before the current Congress winds down.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Sinema gave a goodbye speech in the Senate chamber on Wednesday as her six-year term winds down.
—Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024
As his final weeks in the White House wind down, President Joe Biden and his top aides are making a home-stretch sprint on climate action, finalizing multibillion-dollar clean-energy loans, supporting state-level action on EVs and setting a new national target for greenhouse gas reductions.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Since then, advocates for repealing the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset made a last-ditch lobbying blitz to get the Senate to take it up before the current Congress winds down.
—Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Sinema gave a goodbye speech in the Senate chamber on Wednesday as her six-year term winds down.
—Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Wind down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind%20down. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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