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as in to subside
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
the sound of sirens receded as the fire engines roared off into the distance
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as in to withdraw
to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)
after the rain stops, the floodwaters should gradually recede
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Recent Examples of recede
Side-body creases on the bottom of the doors and another just below the windows that gradually recede add to the vehicle’s character.
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PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025
Concerns began to recede Tuesday when the White House began announcing more and more exceptions, then continued to fade Wednesday with the announcement that the freeze had been rescinded.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
New ways of life in rural Colorado On the Western Slope, ranching and farming — along with the once-prominent mining and coal industries — have receded.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 Jan. 2025
Sports Afterward, the Bills quietly receded from playoff contention and spent years in the football wilderness with 10 different head coaches and 20 starting quarterbacks.
—Becky Sullivan, NPR, 25 Jan. 2025
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By most measures, political violence subsided after January 2021, in part because hundreds of participants in the January 6 attack were convicted and imprisoned.—
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Ultimately, the north winds subsided and hundreds of firefighters and volunteers got the fire under control.—
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At the 2001 event Venus withdrew with a knee injury,.—
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Another clash is set to play out at the U.N. on Monday after the U.S. proposed a competing resolution that lacks the same demands as one from Ukraine and the European Union for Moscow’s forces to immediately withdraw from the country.—
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Although his output had diminished, from an availability and form perspective, Villa valued him higher than Douglas Luiz or Diaby and with greater scope for improvement.—
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This has less to do with a diminishing talent pool than a changing industry where the lines between Corman’s world and Hollywood at large became more sharply drawn.—
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With their press broken, Newcastle had to retreat to their 5-4-1 shape but became fatigued making so many recovery runs.—
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The Trump administration is rapidly delivering wins to American companies by rolling back regulations, pausing investigations and retreating from lawsuits accusing employers of discrimination.—
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Africa’s lion population has decreased by nearly half over the past quarter century, according to the African Wildlife Foundation, and the lion is regionally extinct in 15 African countries.—
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In other second-quarter statistics, there was a 50.9 percent gross margin rate, representing an increase of 110 basis points year-over-year; inventory decreased 1.3 percent last quarter to 404.6 million euros.—
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There is now a four-to-three liberal majority on the court, but Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, a liberal who has sat on the court since 1995, is retiring, putting the court’s majority on the ballot.—
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And the elevator breaks down sometimes, and then nobody can retire.—
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Now with all these things vanished, along with the bookstores and repertory cinemas, the city seems impoverished and disfigured.—
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Eventually, the item vanished from the State Department's procurement document.—
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Good news for green energy The cost of a utility-scale solar panels has fallen 82% since 2010, according to the the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.—
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That stock is up about 22% so far this year despite falling sharply during the DeepSeek sell-off in January.—
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“Recede.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recede. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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