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n. - The sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it; A gradual sinking to a lower level; An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease).

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  • While subsidence is certainly a piper that must ultimately, one day, be paid, we have to think about these things on appropriate timelines.
  • Of all the threats facing southeast Louisiana in the age of global warming, subsidence is the most daunting, because it is a problem without a solution.
  • They also inferred from the data that long-term subsidence rates are more on the order of a fraction of a millimeter per year rather than 10 millimeters.
  • Actually it says that "inferred from the data that long-term subsidence rates are more on the order of a fraction of a millimeter per year rather than 10 millimeters."
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