Gilbert O'Sullivan

When I started out I thought just hearing one of my records on the radio would be magical. Fortunately, that naivety has always stayed with me. Because when you've had massive success and it tapers off people lose interest in you. So you have to work even harder to generate interest.

Irish Musician

Tina Knowles

I've heard complaints from women all over the country that plus-size clothes aren't sexy enough. You know, I'm a grandma, but I don't want to look like a grandma! I want to feel confident and sexy in the clothes. I like my stuff tapered and well-fitted, not all boxy.

American Businesswoman

Dana Hill

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

American Actress

Viswanathan Anand

I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head.

Indian Celebrity

Geena Davis

One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles tapering off.

Robert Nelson

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

Canadian Politician

Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

American Comedian

Nicholas Haslam

I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in.

English Designer

Norman Ralph Augustine

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

American Author

Lawrence Welk

His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.

American Musician

Picture something narrowing down to help remember this use of 'taper'.

Visual Imagery

Imagine gradually lessening, like a cone shape, not abrupt.

Gradual Process

Think of 'taper' as an old-fashioned candle, often used before electricity.

Historical Item

See a 'taper' as creating soft, gentle light, adding historical ambiance.

Delicate Source

Understand 'taper' as making something pointed or narrowed by design.

Purposeful Shaping

Tapering can be used to give an object a subtle change in shape or form.

Subtle Effect

Think of 'taper off' as slowly coming to a stop or decreasing.

Gradual Reduction

Use creatively to describe non-physical things becoming less intense.

Metaphorically Speaking

Know 'taper' as a recorder is mostly used in legal or formal proceedings.

Specific Context

A 'taper' now refers more to audio or video recording, less to stenography.

Modern Rarity

 Using more consistent data points gives a different picture with job losses tapering off by the end of 2009. And if you wonder why they were increasing in the first place, the timeline starts immediately after the U.S.'s biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. These techniques are known as cherry picking.

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 radio-collared we have monitored hundreds of tapers throughout the country so we have tons tons and tons of information coming in every day and those pieces of information they're extremely important to us to help us design those conservation strategies that I mentioned before make them

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 And the shopkeeper said, "Do you want slim fit, easy fit, relaxed fit? You want button fly or zipper fly? You want stonewashed or acid-washed? Do you want them distressed? Do you want boot cut, tapered?" Blah, blah, blah on and on he went. My jaw dropped. And after I recovered, I said,

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 and I did not want to talk about the ways we were different. I wanted to talk about the ways were we connected. So I changed the subject. And at the time, it felt like the right decision. But as I sat witness to my grandmother's life as it tapered to its inevitable end,

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 Balinese culture fosters craftsmanship. It values the artisan. So combine those with the adventurous outliers from new generations of locally trained architects and designers and engineers, and always remember that you are designing for curving, tapering, hollow poles.

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 extinction of tapers would seriously impact biodiversity as a whole scientific research has always been a major part of what I do the main focus of my work but it's also very very important to promote awareness about the tapir conservation cause and here's what

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 As the fire heats up, the carbon dioxide and water vapor created by combustion expand. Now that they’re less dense, they rise in a thinning column. Gravity causes this expansion and rising, which gives flames their characteristic taper.

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 although they prescribe opioids to get pain under control, they do not oversee tapering and withdrawal. Furious, we called the prescriber back and begged him for anything -- anything that could help me -- but instead he apologized,

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 that we were measuring. And most important was over the course of the years of study, we saw no improvement over time. The other folks got four months of coaching and then it tapered off over eight months, and we saw them increase

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 i can just make out its mouth and i think it's a tapir that's a long nose the tapers look sort of like a funny