as in to taper off
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Still, some observers caution that Netflix’s recent growth streak is likely to taper off.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
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Let the weak hands get shaken out and selling pressure taper off.Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024
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There are more and more old people around me, and the number of children is decreasing.Mark Schilling, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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At Taiwan’s National Development Council, which focuses on economic development, however, a hike in tariffs is not a big threat, according to the government agency’s minister, Chin-Ching Liu, who said Taipei has decreased exports to China from 40 percent to 20 percent.Brad Dress, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024
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Inflation appears to be moderating, with core CPE at 2.7% in September.Steven Dudash, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Although job and wage gains are expected to moderate, the Fed has begun cutting interest rates now that inflation is closing in on its 2% target.Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Three years later, the New York Times, with CBS, released the nation’s first media-run poll, at once diminishing the role of man-on-the-street reporting and abandoning the long-standing reluctance of news organizations to conduct polls.Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Federal dollar windfalls lead to higher executive pay and other bloated spending, diminishing hospitals’ financial agility.Ge Bai, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The reader was promised the possibility of sinking into another world, of escaping their problems, the weight of life subsiding for minutes, hours, days at a time.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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At noon, Valencia’s regional president, Carlos Mazon, seemed to downplay the crisis by saying the storm was subsiding, contradicting the warnings of emergency services.Atika Shubert, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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Regulators at both federal and state levels have expressed deep concerns the deal would lessen competition and give Kroger too much power to raise prices for consumers.Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2024
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In time, however, Rhodes’ grip on the family lessened.Will Carless, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Die (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/die%20%28down%29. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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