fade
verb (used without object)
to lose brightness or vividness of color.
have been fading
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present perfect progressiveof fade.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Paramount’s assets, including MTV, Nickelodeon and the Melrose Avenue movie studio, have been fading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Arsenal have been fading for weeks, the failure to sign a recognised striker exposed as a flawed strategy, with injuries to Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz compounding the absence of key figure Bukayo Saka.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
Investors came into 2024 hopeful that Fed officials would cut rates substantially this year, but those hopes have been fading as inflation has shown much more staying power than expected.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
One by one, several of the criticisms that dogged the Gonzaga men’s basketball team in November and December have been fading away.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
Its red bricks might have been fading there for a couple of hundred years.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
