Example Sentences

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As it stands, price increases have been subsiding, as the shocks from pandemic-era supply chain issues and the war in Ukraine fade.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

Floodwaters have been subsiding, but more bad weather may be on the way.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2023

The effects of the Great Change, both political and social, have been subsiding already for some time, and the order of things at large has also begun to settle down.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho