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eases
  • present tense form of ease (3rd person singular).

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Second, stocks could be foreseeing a future that many Americans have yet to suss out—one, say, in which the war with Iran ends, inflation eases and growth picks up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines have indicated they could adjust their estimates when jet fuel-price volatility eases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

How quickly this eases the bottleneck of vessels trapped inside the Gulf remains to be seen.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

"With crude backing off, the pressure on inflation expectations and front-end yields eases at the margin, and that is enough to let capital rotate back toward risk, at least for now."

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

She eases out onto the pavement and makes her way slowly down the road.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez