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• Further, the apartment boom in San Diego may be on the wane.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
• With tree pollen on the wane over coming weeks, next up is grass pollen.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
• With tree pollen on the wane over coming weeks, next up is grass pollen.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
• Word didn’t spread far enough last summer, and youth baseball is on the wane.
  — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Apr. 2022
• Is the Covid delta variant surge finally on the wane in Ohio?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2021
• The formation of huge blackbird flocks is a sure sign summer is on the wane.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• With sales on the wane, the agency is looking to lean on rates to keep its budget from sinking.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2024
• Right now, America’s fervor for testing is, like the virus, on the wane.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2022
• The immunity from those first vaccines may be on the wane.
  — Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• The virus was on the wane, but its impact made things seem precarious inside the mall.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• Now, with vaccines in millions of arms and the Omicron variant on the wane, there are signs investors are ready to move on.
  — Angelica Peebles, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2022
• Once again, yellowjackets appear to be on the wane, but Benadryl in the pack is always a good idea.
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2021
• Another move at odds with current trends is the decision to merge with a SPAC as a route to market — a type of deal that is on the wane.
  — Ercan Ersoy, Bloomberg.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Here’s another sign that the dollar’s strength is on the wane: The greenback is on pace for its longest losing streak in more than two years.
  — Caitlin McCabe, wsj.com, 8 May 2023
• The goal in both Russia and Iran will be to ensure a high turnout, to avoid any impression that support for the authorities is on the wane.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2024
• Lake Erie water levels are on the wane after two years of broken records and eroding shoreline.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• Also on the wane in the royal wardrobe: prints—previously a cornerstone of Kate’s looks.
  — Emma Spedding, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• The same process works in reverse: nations on the wane scale back their ambitions, cut losses, and see failure as a portent to be heeded.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2020
• Why it wasn't nominated: Even non-druggy ancient epics are on the wane with the Academy.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 10 Mar. 2023
• With May on the wane, many of us are feeling picky about produce; eager to get on onto local farms and pluck our own berries and other fruit from patches, trees and vines.
  — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2023
• Explore the implications: Cash and checks were already on the wane as more customers bought online and used debit and credit cards in stores.
  — Forbes, 12 May 2021
• Now, negative bets are on the wane, according to this month’s Bank of America Corp. survey.
  — Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
• With coronavirus on the wane thanks to vaccination efforts, things are starting to get back to normal.
  — Jennifer Brett, ajc, 31 May 2021
• Demand for other languages like Clojure, Haskell, and Visual Basic is also on the wane.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2017
• But the coup was on the wane; after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. had stopped propping up quite so many military dictatorships, which are what tend to get militarily couped.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 July 2023
• Superhero films have been the most notable under-performers, but U.S. studio franchises across the board have been on the wane in China this year.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• And the results are often humbling in the extreme: Just as Tom’s bullying privileges over Greg are on the wane, the weaknesses of all the Roys get thrown into sharp relief.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2021
• The connection between jobs and airline service may seem hazy in an era where so many people work remotely and business travel is on the wane.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 17 Jan. 2023
• The Hines brothers inherited a tap-dance tradition on the wane and, decades later, had a lot to do with bringing it back into the public consciousness.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Hale’s influence in the United States has been on the wane since the 1970s, with one state after another abandoning his legal principles on rape.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 6 May 2022

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024