waned

verb

past tense of wane
as in decreased
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually in the course of the evening the storm steadily waned

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Recent Examples of waned The show’s relevance waned, and some of us grew up, moved on, and stopped caring. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 16 Oct. 2026 For 25 years, interest in AI research waned and funding dried up. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 But the government’s interest in the domain has waxed and waned. — Kathleen Curlee, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2026 But while the calls to resign or step aside have waned, many are still agitating for change. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 My confidence in Kiffin's ability to win at LSU has not waned. — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 However, the brand’s initial dominance has gradually waned, according to insiders, as competing brands have encroached on Fenty Beauty’s market share. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2026 The treatment effect of AMT-130 seems to have waned from year three to four, for reasons that don’t alarm UniQure but that have raised some outside questions about the therapy’s durability. — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026 Fascination around Coppola’s stylish, sympathetic biopic of the Dauphine of France has hardly waned in the 20 years since its release. — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for waned
  1. decreased
  2. subsided
  3. diminished
  4. fell
  5. vanished
  6. ebbed
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  • Now the prevalence of malaria is around 7%, and deaths of children under five decreased by 78%.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.
    — Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of decreased
Verb
  • But within a couple years, as the pandemic eased and community-police tension subsided, Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa started using his village purchasing card – known as a p-card – in a different way than others with the same cards.
    — Irika Sargent, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, conditions were improving in the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, where residents began resuming normal activities as the rain subsided.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of subsided
Verb
  • The weather service canceled the flood watch for nearly all the Kansas City forecast area because the threat of additional heavy rain had diminished.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • One can see this when a paint’s color appears diminished and faded.
    — Wendy S. Walters, Architectural Digest, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of diminished
Verb
  • Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, said the 430 trees that were felled were not identified as hazardous or raising safety concerns.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Yet trees that took a millennium to grow can be felled in under an hour.
    — Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of fell
Verb
  • Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished 22,000 miles into their expedition.
    — Lana Zak, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There, researchers have just announced that AI may help hasten the return of the extinct dodo, with the flightless bird, which vanished from the world more than 350 years ago, likely walking among us again sometime in the early 2030s.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of vanished
Verb
  • The golden era of sports print journalism ebbed and began to die.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The new era of worker power that labor advocates proclaimed as the pandemic ebbed was something of a chimera.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of ebbed

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“Waned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waned. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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