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also rachet (down)
as in to decrease
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
news stories about the kidnapping will ratchet down as the weeks go by
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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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Analysts predict consumer electronic sales will decrease 3% year over year in 2024, but that is actually an improvement from last year’s 7.9% decline as demand bottomed after a sales acceleration during the Covid-19 pandemic.Paulina Likos, CNBC, 2 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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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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As their territory shrinks, saolas are forced into smaller, isolated populations, reducing their chances to find mates and maintain the genetic diversity necessary for survival.Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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If Meta’s next generation AI, Llama 4, is released as an open model, as it is widely expected to be, this gap could shrink even further.Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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In short, Americans have more money to spend on fun because 2022’s inflationary pressures have started to ebb.Michael Foster, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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Despite this, violence by extremist groups, as reported by a different organization, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, has actually ebbed this year, likely because law enforcement has arrested dozens of members of these groups for their participation in the Capitol riot.Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2024
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Li has seen its average selling prices decline by about 15% year-over-year to RMB 270,000 during the most recent quarter.Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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And when the stock market declined, the incumbent party lost in eight out of nine cases, giving this trend an 83 percent accuracy in predicting election outcomes, LPL Financial's chief technical strategist Adam Turnquist says.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Yes, but: Interest in this topic tapered off through September, with curiosity dropping faster for Trump.Brady Dale, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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The problems with the App Store appeared to have been resolved within an hour: User error reports on Downdetector had tapered off to negligible levels by noon ET.Variety Staff, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Ratchet (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ratchet%20%28down%29. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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