as in to decrease
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
you'll find the symptoms begin tapering gradually about 24 hours after you take the medicine
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Recent Examples of taper
Orange polymer clay is your best bet for a spring carrot DIY; roll the clay into a thick cylinder, taper one end, and use a dowel or skewer to create a large hole down the middle.
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Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025
The torpedo bat is tapered at the end and has more mass in the barrel than a traditional model, allowing some hitters a better chance to turn on an inside pitch.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Apr. 2025
The slender residential towers would taper up from the Deauville’s reconstructed and reinterpreted covered concourse and would contain about 120 luxury condo units.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
Its blunt snout extends nearly 30% of its disc width, while its tail (which tapers smoothly) can grow to more than twice the size of its body!
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Apr. 2025
The torpedo bat is tapered at the end and has more mass in the barrel than a traditional model, allowing some hitters a better chance to turn on an inside pitch.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 2 Apr. 2025
The slender residential towers would taper up from the Deauville’s reconstructed and reinterpreted covered concourse and would contain about 120 luxury condo units.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
Its blunt snout extends nearly 30% of its disc width, while its tail (which tapers smoothly) can grow to more than twice the size of its body!
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for taper
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The number of Jesuits globally has steadily decreased since the 1960s, when there were more than 36,000.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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As the storm moves away, this likelihood decreases.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Apr. 2025
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But much of that has subsided now; the Steelers, after all, don’t have a second-round pick and trading up could be out of the question as a result.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2025
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While immediate inflation concerns have subsided, the current administration's aggressive tariff and immigration policies are creating new economic anxieties that could lead to future instability.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Whereas a decline in home values diminishes the equity investors might hold in their properties, which limits their ability to leverage assets for additional investments or refinancing opportunities.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, a more constrained and domestically focused healthcare agenda is likely to diminish trust in federal health agencies, limit access to culturally competent care and produce a loss of global leadership in health innovation.—
Robert Pearl,
Forbes.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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The overall unemployment rate for the working-age population in cities eased slightly to 5.2% in March from a two-year high of 5.4% in February.—
Evelyn Cheng,Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
28 Apr. 2025
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This shift acknowledges cannabis’s medical potential and eases some research restrictions.—
Matt Rozo,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025
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And the performance gap between American and Japanese horses is shrinking.—
Peter Keating,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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For a short period during the chaos of the early pandemic, the state’s estimates started to diverge from the national estimates for California’s population, but that gap has shrunk as the two sources have largely re-aligned.—
Harriet Blair Rowan,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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Muir declined to speak to The Athletic about the evolution of Stanford athletics.—
Stewart Mandel,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Both the Probation Department and DMH declined to comment.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Rising bond yields Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds typically fall – and their prices rise - as investors flee stocks for the safe haven of Treasuries during economic slowdowns.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Sales are falling partly due to rising competition from other automakers’ EV offerings, especially in China.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Taper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taper. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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