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Teenage girls find solace playing basketball on a dwindling team without a coach.

Or stay holed up at home, with dwindling resources, to lessen the chance of being pulled over?

Netflix’s obvious belief that, despite dwindling ratings for the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys, streaming could take the SAG Awards and make them, well, a star has proved to be misguided.

Elsewhere, one of London's oldest tracks, the Crayford Greyhound Stadium, closed due to "dwindling support", while New Zealand is also planning a ban due to an "unacceptably high" injury rate.

Not surprisingly, Democratic politicians and activists have disagreed over the lessons of defeat and dwindling support from working-class Americans, including Latino and Black voters: Do they need a new message, or merely a different messenger?