dwindling

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With this energy base dwindling, there is simply not enough time to replace a fluid so cheap, abundant and versatile.

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  1. gradually decreasing until little remains.
  2. the act or process of becoming gradually less until little remains; as, there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family.

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  1. a becoming gradually less
  2. gradually decreasing until little remains

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  • Their equipment was slowly breaking down around them; their population was dwindling, as dozens of colonists a year died of exposure or cold-related accidents. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • It's dwindling, and it's distant, but it's there and it's enough. —  FSF, July 2006
  • Even as she thought this, she saw that it was dwindling -- that the darkness was not a static thing, a mere wall around them, but continued to grow and seep up across the sky. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • His savings dwindling, his partnership share decreasing as he made less and less money for the firm, he would have been an easy target when somebody from Hanover approached and asked him to let a man inside the firm — an industrial spy, they'd probably said. —  Mistress of Justice
  • Accesses to proxy servers are also dwindling, and so we are ensuring that our members have access to proxy servers. —  Assyrian International News Agency
 

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