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The patient's strength ebbed away.ebbed = gradually declined
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It was a time when their relationship was at its lowest ebb.ebb = decline
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The jellyfish ride the ebb tide until they hit a sandbar, and then descend beneath the current.ebb = receding (declining)
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The tides ebbed at noon.ebbed = started receding (decreasing)
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After the incident, support for the policy ebbed.ebbed = declined
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He blew his nose on a corner of the filthy pillowcase he wore, looking so pathetic that Harry felt his anger ebb away in spite of himself. (source)ebb = decrease
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My anticipation at having my own book ebbed to a sinking disappointment. (source)ebbed = declined
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By this time the tide was beginning to ebb, and the ship was swinging round to her anchor. (source)ebb = gradually fall
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Gita cannot stop morale from ebbing away. (source)ebbing = declining
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The thunder ebbed. (source)ebbed = gradually declined
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Sensitive to the ebb and flow of teenage romance, Ed often chose slow songs to get a couple back together. (source)ebb and flow = recurring pattern of decrease and increase
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But as I look at him, my anger ebbs away, like the changing of the tide.† (source)ebbs = declines -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
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Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic either, not mostly, but instead with a resignation shot through with moments of tension, with tension ebbing and flowing, and when the tension receded there was calm, the calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to pause and not act but be.† (source)ebbing and flowing = exhibiting a recurring pattern of decrease and increase
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Every 'best-selling' writer of fiction would, he supposed, have his own personal example or examples of radical reader involvement with the make-believe worlds the writer creates ....examples of the Scheherazade complex, Paul thought now, half-dreaming as the sound of Annie's mower ebbed and flowed at some great echoing distance.† (source)ebbed and flowed = exhibited a recurring pattern of decrease and increase
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As at Thisbe's name the eye Of Pyramus was open'd (when life ebb'd Fast from his veins), and took one parting glance, While vermeil dyed the mulberry; thus I turn'd To my sage guide, relenting, when I heard The name, that springs forever in my breast.† (source)ebb'd = declined -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
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He said, "This close to the Sacred Mountain, time ebbs and flows.† (source)ebbs and flows = exhibits a recurring pattern of decrease and increase
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We smiled at each other, another degree of ebb.† (source)ebb = decline -- typically gradually as with the height of the tide
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