recede

The amnesia conceit allows the film to highlight its artificiality: painted backdrops, stages that recede into blackness, supporting players recast in multiple roles.

It was only later, after the pandemic receded into our collective rear-view mirror, that I recognized another, underlying reason I talked money so much in the teeth of my frustration and fear.

"Grief recedes but only in waves and then, at some point, it comes back," she says.

The flames receded, and a little over a week later, fire officials fully contained the blaze.

To make matters worst, climate change is making the Arctic ice sheets recede, forcing the whales to travel farther distances each season to reach their northern feeding grounds.