recede (from)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recede (from)
Verb
  • Outreach workers who live among farmworkers are withdrawing a little, too.
    Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • After heated arguments and several conversations in chambers, Weinstein’s team agreed to withdraw the motion, so long as a stipulation was given to the jury about the notetaking.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • If one or two bounces had gone the other way, Dartmouth would have advanced to the final four for the first time in school history.
    Jay King, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The rest of the Rockies went hitless in their 39 at-bats against the two Padres starters.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The department did not say how much money is left of the total $189 billion approved.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • With few options left, Adam begins considering and concocting ways to enact vengeance, but Basem, having been down that rageful path, advises him otherwise.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Instead of an opportunity to gawk and marvel, The Silent Twins presents these two sisters — who retreated inside themselves and spoke only to each other for years — with a sense of complete individuality and autonomy.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Yankees’ second baseman then threw his helmet before retreating to the clubhouse.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Recede (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recede%20%28from%29. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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