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How to pronounce “decline”

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Pronunciation guide for decline

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of decline with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Steven PinkerBetter Angels of our Nature: why violence has declined'. Please welcome Steven Pinker.
Definition summary: Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)

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Steven Pinker

Better Angels of our Nature: why violence has declined'. Please welcome Steven Pinker.

[Noun]
Downward movement, fall.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
The act of declining or refusing something.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
(intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
(transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
(transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
(transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
(transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
(transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
(American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.