terminal decline

collocation in English

meaningsofterminalanddecline

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terminal
adjective
uk
/ˈtɜː.mɪ.nəl/us
/ˈtɝː.mə.nəl/
(of a disease or illness) leading gradually ...
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decline
noun[S or U]
uk
/dɪˈklaɪn/us
/dɪˈklaɪn/
when something becomes less in amount, importance, quality, ...
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(Definition ofterminalanddeclinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Three-year-mortality-rate between ages 85 and 88 was used to control for the effect ofterminaldecline.
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The incremental pattern of ageing found in average population statistics does not match the trajectory of most individuals who maintain function until the onset ofterminaldecline.
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For him, reductionism is in perhapsterminaldecline, as the complexity, interconnectedness, and the integrated function of biological systems are increasingly recognized as central and irreducible problems of modern biology.
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We should not be here fiddling about with an antiquated system that is interminaldecline.
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As befits a party that we now see interminaldecline, its arguments are impractical and impossible.
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Whole industries that once seemed interminaldeclineare undergoing a rebirth.
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I suggest that physics as a subject is interminaldeclinein our schools.
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That is not to say that the agricultural industry is inevitably interminaldecline.
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We have a last opportunity to save our inner cities from going intoterminaldecline.
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We are allowing manufacturing industry in this country to get into a state ofterminaldecline.
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That is not a sign ofterminaldeclinein a manufacturing sector.
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That third-world economy with a superpower arsenal could be interminaldecline.
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That resulted in the company going intoterminaldecline.
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They do not understand what happens when manufacturing industry is allowed to go into almostterminaldecline.
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I have not checked to find out how many there are now, but one can see that there is aterminaldecline.
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That is not a picture of an economy interminaldecline.
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It is poised on the precipice ofterminaldecline, and the sooner it falls over, the better.
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That would soon lead to aterminaldeclinein the taxi industry.
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They looked at the statistics and pronounced theterminaldeclineof manufacturing, declaring that we were a service economy.
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Shipbuilding then was suffering from world surpluses and seemed to be interminaldecline.
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