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As it turns out, however, inflation — including measures that try to strip out temporary factors — has been subsiding despite high employment.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

It appears from various signs and traditions, that the coast has been subsiding for the last four centuries from the firth called Igaliko, in lat.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

If you doubt it, go count the distinctly-marked ridges in the so-called bluffs, and see how many years or ages this modern deluge has been subsiding.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various