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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a straightforward decline" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a clear and uncomplicated decrease in something, such as numbers, performance, or interest.
Example: "The report indicated a straightforward decline in sales over the past quarter, prompting the management to reassess their marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a clear decrease" or "an obvious drop".
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The implication is that there may not necessarily be a straightforward decline in the proportion of those believing that e-cigarettes are less harmful as more people begin using them and relative risks of these products probably need to be communicated more widely to smokers.
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In my Sunday column this week, on the respective careers of Andrew Breitbart and James Q . Wilson I pushed back against the tendency to see the shift to a more partisan and sensationalistic media (which empowers figures like Breitbart, Maher, Olbermann, etc., and arguably diminishes the potential influence of genuine eminences like Wilson) as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
It's easy to see the shift from Wilson's old-media conversation to Breitbart's new-media circus — from public intellectuals to talking heads, from social science to showmanship, from The Public Interest and Commentary to blogs and tweets and gossip — as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
We're used to seeing the decline of newspapers generally as a straightforward consequence of internet growth.
The conflict was a straightforward struggle over money (the last profits of the declining fur trade) and land (the Connecticut River Valley, which has the region's most productive soil).
It is difficult to make a straightforward conclusion as to the functional consequences of this age-related decline in RyR levels.
Penguin said it was a "straightforward matter involving the publisher's right to publish the author's next work" but declined to say more.
The apparent decline in seroprevalence observed around the age of 25 years suggests that seroprevalence is not a straightforward marker of all past HPV infection.
A straightforward sandwich cheddar.
A straightforward hold.
A straightforward win.
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