Example Sentences

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With top tech companies shifting their cash flow toward heavily artificial-intelligence-fueled capital expenditure, the buybacks that have supported the market for so long will diminish.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

And there is little indication at present that tensions in the region will diminish.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican who welcomed the federal intervention, has said that while “the surge will diminish at some point,” the task force’s operations and collaboration between organizations “will last forever.”

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

The firm’s influence over voting will diminish at last.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

‘I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien