| 2025-04-28 | Decrease |
| 2025-04-12 | Fall off |
| 2025-03-07 | Wax off? |
| 2024-08-18 | Dwindle |
| 2023-09-18 | Taper off |
| 2023-09-14 | Decline |
| 2023-04-01 | Become less brilliant |
| 2022-09-07 | Diminish |
| 2022-03-28 | Get smaller, as the moon |
| 2021-11-01 | Decrease in size, as the moon |
| 2021-10-09 | Die out |
| 2021-03-07 | A full moon will do this |
| 2020-09-19 | Wax off? |
| 2020-06-21 | Lessen in power |
| 2019-08-16 | Stop waxing, say |
| 2019-03-21 | Go down, in a way |
| 2018-07-09 | Decline |
| 2017-12-08 | Start to go out |
| 2017-09-15 | Go down |
| 2017-01-22 | Ebb |
| 2016-02-29 | Become less full, as the moon |
| 2015-09-07 | Decline, as in popularity |
| 2015-08-26 | Die down |
| 2015-01-18 | Die down |
| 2014-11-23 | Lose strength |
| 2014-10-01 | Decline |
| 2014-01-18 | Draw to an end |
| 2013-10-29 | Fade |
| 2013-05-15 | Lose oomph |
| 2013-03-13 | Grow dim |
| 2012-05-30 | Ebb |
| 2011-05-29 | Diminish |
| 2010-09-28 | Ebb |
| 2010-06-28 | What moons do after full moons |
| 2010-02-15 | Become less bright, as the moon |
| 2009-02-21 | Drop off |
| 2009-02-11 | Grow dim |
| 2008-12-24 | Ebb |
| 2008-11-03 | Decrease, as the moon |
| 2007-11-02 | Draw to a close |
| 2007-09-03 | Decrease gradually |
| 2007-03-10 | Flag |
| 2006-05-21 | Fall off |
| 2006-02-25 | Drop off |
| 2006-02-16 | Drop off |
| 2005-10-13 | Lose power |
| 2004-12-13 | Decrease gradually |
| 2004-06-30 | Diminish |
| 2004-04-23 | Draw to a close |
| 2004-02-01 | Decline |
| 2003-11-28 | Be on the way out |
| 2003-02-05 | Fall off |
| 2002-01-27 | Fall off |
| 2001-12-20 | Taper off |
| 2001-07-01 | Go down |
| 2000-11-06 | Wind down |
| 2000-05-29 | Diminish |
| 1999-05-14 | Fall off |
| 1998-07-14 | Go downhill |
| 1998-01-25 | Dwindle |
| 1997-12-16 | Drop off |
| 1997-09-17 | Diminish |
| 1997-04-12 | Draw to a close |
| 1997-02-18 | Wax's opposite |
| 1996-11-11 | Grow dim |
| 1996-08-25 | Peter out |
| 1996-06-10 | Grow dim |
| 1995-12-26 | Grow dim |
| 1995-10-29 | Fade |
| 1995-09-24 | Alternative to wax |
| 1995-04-06 | Dwindle |
| 1994-08-21 | Diminish |
| 1994-05-24 | Diminish |
| 1994-03-05 | Wind down |