Definitions
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- noun A downward course; a decline.
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- noun A
slide downward ; aworsening .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "downslide" is much easier than the sugar crash.
Beat Caffeine Addiction, Then Stay Awake With Placebos | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The "downslide" is much easier than the sugar crash.
Beat Caffeine Addiction, Then Stay Awake With Placebos | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department.
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And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department.
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And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department.
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And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department.
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And they've talked openly how his departure, Bill Berry's departure in 1997, really was the kind of downslide, the beginning of the end, in terms of this most recent era of not so greatness in the R.E.M. department.
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Plus, it seems that violence in general has been on the downslide as the world tends towards greater civilization.
Movie Reviews: Whiteout the Inglourious Lying | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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It's not all good news, but it's a small upside to the downslide.
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Under Mr. Byrnes, the Diamondbacks won the National League West title in 2007 and reached the National League Championship Series before beginning a steady downslide that precipitated Mr. Byrnes 'firing.
Mets Settle on Alderson and Byrnes as Finalists for GM Mike Sielski 2010
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