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Biden on Thursday welcomed new inflation data released Thursday that showed underlying price pressures were subsiding, with the annual increase in prices excluding food and energy tracking their smallest rise in nearly two years.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2023

The riots were subsiding by then, but Los Angeles was still in disorder, so team officials had a very different concern.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2017

Radar imagery revealed sections of levees, rebuilt higher after Hurricane Katrina, were subsiding by as much as 2 inches a year.

From Washington Times • May 19, 2016

By 9 p.m., she said, it was still raining but the winds were subsiding.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2015

These feelings, however, were subsiding, and as they retired his astonishment seemed to grow, and his hand trembled when he folded up the letter for the last time and laid it down.

From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean