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receding

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1. receding - Noun

2. receding - Adjective

3. receding - Verb

5. receding - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Recede

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. William Gibson

Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. David Foster Wallace

One shouldn't worry about taking pictures or making tape recordings. Those are superfluities of sedate lives. One should worry about the spirit, which is always receding. Carlos Castaneda

It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? Jack Kerouac

The celebrated earthy tactility of Rabelais is a massive backwash of receding manuscript culture. Marshall McLuhan

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant

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