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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

Those from Sheikh Nawaf’s lifetime, born before oil fully transformed Kuwait from a trading hub into a petrostate, have been fading away with age.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2023

Refugees' hopes of being able to return home one day have been fading with each day of the invasion.

From Reuters • Mar. 10, 2022

Anthony Stropoli, a personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, holds one of the lucrative, client-facing jobs that have been fading in retail in recent years and he noted that luxury retail was a different ballgame.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Its red bricks might have been fading there for a couple of hundred years.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)