as in downturn
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Recent Examples of downswing
Bitcoin, which had already been on the downswing, has declined about 17% in the last 24 hours.
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Steve Kopack, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
In June, the US economy added 206,000 jobs, a slight downswing from 215,000 the month before; but the unemployment rate rose for the third month in a row to 4.1%, its highest since November 2021.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 26 July 2024
Maryland is entering an uptick on the heels of a downswing, having sent only two representatives over the last two Olympic cycles.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
The subsequent downswing produced the revolutions of 1848, when the emergent bourgeois classes of Europe burst onto the historical stage.
—Mark Blyth, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016
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Steve Kopack, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
In June, the US economy added 206,000 jobs, a slight downswing from 215,000 the month before; but the unemployment rate rose for the third month in a row to 4.1%, its highest since November 2021.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 26 July 2024
Maryland is entering an uptick on the heels of a downswing, having sent only two representatives over the last two Olympic cycles.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2024
The subsequent downswing produced the revolutions of 1848, when the emergent bourgeois classes of Europe burst onto the historical stage.
—Mark Blyth, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for downswing
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Since the fourth generation was unveiled in 2016, annual sales have remained a mystery, a wicked downturn one year, a surprising surge in sales the next year.James Raia, The Mercury News, 3 Nov. 2024
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The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling average also shows a downturn for the Democratic nominee.Tara Suter, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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That is being felt at the corporate level, of course, with speculation about deals involving Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate, or Comcast’s cable channels, but also at the production company level, where the slowdown is being felt most acutely.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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When Is the Earliest the 2024 Election Can Be Called? Election Day has previously morphed into election week in 2020 with an influx of mail-in and early ballots due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing major slowdowns in vote counting and reporting election results.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The downtrend in yields, line a, was broken in early October.Tom Aspray, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Asia-Pacific markets were more mixed, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 bucking the downtrend.Alex Harring, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Downswing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downswing. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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