as in to subside
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
in the course of the evening the storm steadily waned
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Recent Examples of wane
Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Assembling the world’s greatest basketball players remains a spectacle to behold, even if the on-court competition has waned over time.
—Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2025
Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Jan. 2025
The wane in commercial vehicle oversight at DPS is not necessarily due to lack of money.
—Tony Plohetski, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Rates remain high in much of the country, at a time when the virus usually wanes.
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The AfD co-chairwoman pointed to a series of policy changes that took place in the 2010’s as the beginning of Germany’s wane in prosperity, drawing specific attention to immigration and energy legislation.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for wane
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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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Consumers so far have been willing to pay record prices thanks to recent trends around wage and employment growth, according to Swanson, but prices could drop if demand ebbs.—
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But relations between the US and China, the world’s two most powerful nations, have sunk to their lowest ebb in decades, strained by spiraling competition over technology, military, geopolitics and more.—
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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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Why Leaders Are Resigning: The Three Critical Factors Erosion Of Trust in Leadership The report shows that only 29% of employees trust their immediate managers—a dramatic decline.—
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In total, German exports added up to 1.56 trillion euros last year, a 1.2% decline compared with 2023.—
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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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However, Porter endured a bit of a slump as a sophomore.—
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With Tuesday’s gains, its shares are up nearly 31% this year following a 60% slump in 2024.—
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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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Just like this claim, the others will fall apart because there is no truth to them.—
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This advanced stage of the disease is difficult to treat, and remission may not be possible.—
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Bryan said the dogs in the trial have gone into complete remission, although months later a recurrence happened for both.—
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“Wane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wane. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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