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If not, it is because you are slackening off.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2015

Both UPS and FedEx reported that holiday shipments are slackening, while Microsoft and Compaq became the latest tech titans to blame poor earnings on a slowing home-PC market.

From Time Magazine Archive

See, the infantry are slackening their advance in spite of the shouts of their officers.

From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Do not, my son: rouse them not up again When they are slackening in their attack.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon

Thursday, March 18th.—We have had an off-day to-day at the place of woods and commons, which I hope and trust means that things are slackening off.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous