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downslide

[ doun-slahyd ]

noun

  1. a decline or downward trend, as of prices.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of downslide1

First recorded in 1925–30; down 1 + slide
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The question I’ve been trying to sort through ever since I left the company in 2019 is whether the downslide is because of Skipper’s absence, the state of sports, the state of media, the state of politics, or some combination of all of them.

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Now, next year, you’ll be a mess, on the downslide,” Kimmel joked.

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I'm rarely an optimist, but I see the Age of Trump hitting the downslide.

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The population has also more recently struggled with Syria’s economic downslide, which has sent food prices soaring and residents thrown into poverty.

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But Johnson’s downslide was encapsulated in the long-running controversy over Downing Street parties in 2020 and 2021 that violated COVID-19 lockdown rules.

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