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Example sentences for: wane

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But Congress' military influence began to wane as presidents grabbed more and more power.
And some of the GOP's increasing anti-interventionism can be ascribed to hysterical dislike of President Clinton, rather than to principled belief, and is likely to wane when he is gone.
Even by my school days, the academic hunger had begun to wane.
If we can learn something about how the underlying emotions wax and wane, about the circumstances under which bad things are likely to happen, wouldn't that be useful information?
While fatigue/weakness is not easily treated pharmacologically, some patients respond to glucocorticoids (eg, dexamethasone) [ 70 71 72 ] . While they can be continued until death, the effect may wane after 4 to 6 weeks.