But maybe the fade-out does not come.

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The break in hip-hop is that point in the song where the lyrics fade out, the instrumental and the percussion takes center stage, and the B-boys, the break-boys or the break- girls would come on to the dance floor and their thing.

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The similarities between Worms and NiL soon fade into the background: It's out with turn-based play and in with survival of the fastest.

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An automatically generated list called Losing Touch points out long- or short-term relationships that have started to fade.

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Thing is, while it can be good sales-wise for a car to look novel, going too trendy usually means sales will fade out quickly.

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Rogers and Canadian bank CIBC struck a deal for NFC-based mobile payments back in May, long enough ago that it was starting to fade out of the public consciousness.

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Post-fader: the effects are applied to the sound after the fader, allowing the sound to fade out naturally rather than stopping suddenly when the DJ cuts the source audio with the faders.

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