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The tit-for-tat escalation cooled off after Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year truce in October, but manufacturers at the bustling Guangdong market told AFP that US orders had dwindled.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

By that point, the number of workers who remained out on the picket line had dwindled to 28 from the original 120 who walked out at the beginning of the strike.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

In 1931 he was asked by Britain's poultry club to help preserve the breed, whose numbers had dwindled due to changing tastes.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

But by 1939 or so the market had dwindled away.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

The Connecticut 5th had dwindled down to just thirty men.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis