the land is constantly remade, changing its name like a noun going through successive declensions

Remainder ends instead in comic declension

The thinking behind Proud Boys features some of the general declension narratives shared by the alt-right and the conservative tradition

E. M. Forster’s classic Aspects of the Novel (1927) talks about this dimensional declension of characters from flat to round.

the declension of the masculine mystique long identified with the titan of finance

I had not planned to give him a whole declension on the first day as I knew very well what Mr. Ma would think.

as its own specific declension of bossing in general

Embedded in Case and Deaton’s “narrative of deterioration,” then, is a narrative of racial declension. Poorer, non-college-educated black and Hispanics have suffered the same economic weakness without experiencing rising mortality and morbidity