Noun the downpour continued for hours without letupVerb the rain let up just as we reached the house the windmill slowed down as the wind let up
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Despite the recent letup in oil prices, the Fed chair and his foreign counterparts fear that inflation may be getting out of control—the very thing that independent central banks, like the Fed and the E.C.B., were set up to avoid. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 Meanwhile on Friday, economists predict Russia’s central bank will raise its interest rate by a quarter-point amid no letup in inflation, though expectations are rising that policy makers could go even further, with a half-point move. Nasreen Seria, Bloomberg.com, 16 Oct. 2021 That’s the word from Equinix, which released a survey of 2,900 IT executives across the world, showing no letup in plans for major investments in digital technologies to support ambitious expansion plans. Joe Mckendrick, Forbes, 6 July 2022 Indeed, data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health suggest that there’s no sign of a COVID-19 letup, with two key metrics edging higher and a third wobbling up and down but not on a clear path to the bottom. Ryan Huddle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022 Life on the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region has seen little letup in recent weeks.New York Times, 17 July 2022 Russia continued bombing the Azovstal plant without any letup until the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross brokered a separate commitment from Putin to allow some civilians to be evacuated this week, officials said.Washington Post, 5 May 2022 Even as Russia stymies Ukrainian ports and seizes farmland, there has been no letup in vessels leaving Russia’s busiest Black Sea grain terminals. Yusuf Khan, WSJ, 30 June 2022 The Federal Reserve is rolling out the heavy artillery in its bid to fight historic inflation that has shown little letup. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022 See More