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Recent Examples of downslide
In the film, Pussycat encounters Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), a stuntman for Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), a Hollywood star whose career is on the downslide.
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Snow White’s opening weekend box office projections have been on a downslide for the past month.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Data released by the NBS on Friday showed new home prices in China remained unchanged between November and December 2024—putting a stop to a downslide that has been going on since June 2023.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Careers go up and down, and mine was on a bit of a downslide at that point.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
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Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Snow White’s opening weekend box office projections have been on a downslide for the past month.
—Tim Lammers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Data released by the NBS on Friday showed new home prices in China remained unchanged between November and December 2024—putting a stop to a downslide that has been going on since June 2023.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
Careers go up and down, and mine was on a bit of a downslide at that point.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downslide
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The idea is to insulate yourself against the market’s inherent volatility, and to have sufficient cash to cover your expenses in a downturn.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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Previous downturns of this nature, denoted by red arrows on the chart, resulted in consolidation phases lasting several weeks.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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Last season, injuries and suspensions contributed to Arsenal going four league games without a win (two losses and two draws), with another end-of-season slump coinciding with a greater push in the Champions League — winning only one of six games between matchday 31 and 36, racking up four draws.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Meta shares have declined almost 1% since the day before Sora 2′s debut, part of a multimonth slump for the stock.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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Ascertaining accurate figures for the decrease in indigenous communities in the Caribbean is challenging.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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That's what scientists are saying is possibly responsible for the decrease in children developing the problematic and dangerous allergy.—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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The sharp deterioration in air quality this week comes following celebrations for Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which traditionally involves the widespread use of firecrackers which release sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides into the air, as well as harmful heavy metals.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t to say writer and director Mary Bronstein’s film, about the agonizing deterioration of a woman whose life is falling down around her in near-apocalyptic fashion, isn’t worth watching.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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While the downtrend is still intact, price is reaching a level where a mean-reversion bounce could set up.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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January 2026 is estimated to reverse the downtrend of the previous months, although cargo declines will still reach 16.1 percent year over year to 1.87 million TEUs.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Oct. 2025
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The rebound in corporate profitability was largely helped by Beijing’s policies aimed at curtailing fierce price competition across industrial sectors, at a time when deflation in producer prices stretched into its third year.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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China is dealing with entrenched deflation, record youth unemployment, and a real estate market that has halved in just four years.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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Hot water can cause shrinkage or loss of shape.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
27 Oct. 2025
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Men showed a faster rate of brain shrinkage across more regions than women.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the early witnesses to Tongan culture were the agents of its disruption and diminution.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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Maryland has a diminution credit system in which some inmates can earn a reduction in their sentence.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Downslide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downslide. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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