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- verb Present participle of
peter .
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Examples
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Still, that severe weather threat, along with tornadoes, expected ahead of this system, and it is going to become extra-tropical later on today, and eventually just kind of petering out.
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What is needed, and very urgently, is a way to salvage the meaning of life, because materialism is fast petering out.
Deepak Chopra: Winning Back the Future: Here's How! -- Part 2 Deepak Chopra 2011
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Unfortunately, the benefits from the WTO accession are now petering out and reforms have stalled.
China's WTO Decade Zhiwei Zhang 2011
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Now that boom is petering out—and the financial crisis has dented the turnover in stocks and derivatives.
The Future of Exchanges Is Now Jacob Bunge 2011
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Three of the engines behind the recent advance—a strengthening U.S. economy, robust company earnings and signs of progress on the European debt crisis—showed signs of petering out.
Stocks Slide Back Into Red Jonathan Cheng 2011
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What is needed, and very urgently, is a way to salvage the meaning of life, because materialism is fast petering out.
Deepak Chopra: Winning Back the Future: Here's How! -- Part 2 Deepak Chopra 2011
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The nearly decade-year-long rise of gold prices may be petering out, however.
As Gold Prices Soar, JPMorgan Reportedly Reopening New York City Gold Vault Ryan McCarthy 2010
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If this was Chelsea's title defence petering out, it went with a sigh and a snarl.
Didier Drogba argues with fan as Stoke stymie Chelsea's title charge 2011
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The nearly decade-year-long rise of gold prices may be petering out, however.
As Gold Prices Soar, JPMorgan Reportedly Reopening New York City Gold Vault Ryan McCarthy 2010
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Developing economies around the world are battling soaring consumer prices, thanks in part to ultra-low interest rates in developed economies that are trying to keep growth from petering out.
China Raises Rates to Fight Inflation Aaron Back 2011
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