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• The who, what, where and how of trade may be changing, but trade is not in decline.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
• So far, the popular case that trade is in decline looks like an overstatement.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
• Life in Cuba is hard, and the National Ballet has long been in decline.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
• Democrats pretended for more than three years that President Joe Biden’s health wasn’t in decline.
  — Michelle Jefferson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
• Support for Kishida has been in decline for months amid voter frustration over his handling of a wide-ranging party slush-fund scandal, ongoing inflation and a slump of the yen.
  — Isabel Reynolds and Yoshiaki Nohara / Bloomberg, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
• The big picture: Yes, New York puts on a good show and is an iconic backdrop for designers, but all the buzz belies the reality of an industry in decline.
  — Hope King, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
• At the end of the day, Russia is a weak state in decline.
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
• As with so many species in decline, a loss of habitat is key to the changes.
  — Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024
• The news comes at a time when Terran’s stock has been in decline.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• And there are moments that speak to the idea that the white male patriarchy is in decline.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• Jobs in coal had been in decline decades before the wind turbines came to Keyser in 2012.
  — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
• Chinook runs have been in decline for a long period, and the species is the subject of a U.S.-Canada treaty.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Then the Nets arrived and seized upon a defense in decline.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2023
• Once an area is in decline, the trajectory is hard to change.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• But the timber industry in the Tongass has been in decline.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Nevertheless, in the rust belt of the North East, factories were already in decline and thefts were on the rise.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• As that conflict had died down, the total number of conflict deaths had been in decline.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• By then, Black radio and retail outlets had been in decline for years.
  — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• But those problems come back to a business model in decline.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• This was driven by fears, shared by some Americans, that the United States was in decline.
  — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Americans since the day of the founding have worried their country is in decline.
  — Elliot Kaufman, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
• That should be music to shareholder’s ears at a time when media stocks have been in decline.
  — Jeff Valdez, Variety, 20 July 2024
• At the same time as unemployment among the youth is rising, their mental health is in decline.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
• Among the findings: Half of American adults believe our state is in decline.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• By the time Pease began his whaling career, the industry was in decline.
  — James Hagengruber, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Through the first half of the year, China was the company’s only major market where orders were in decline.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
• This is a story of survival, persistence and, perhaps in some ways, dumb luck—a tree in decline that was rescued and whose seeds were sent to other places.
  — Daniel Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• Honda The global auto show might be in decline, but at least fans of futuristic cars still have CES.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• The firm was too narrowly focused on a single client segment, a segment in decline.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
• But union membership rates have been in decline for several decades now.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024