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as in demotes
to bring to a lower grade or rank
was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court
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as in decreases
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement
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as in lowers
to diminish the price or value of
a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade
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Recent Examples of reduces
One day while driving, my vision began to shrink, like the end of a movie when the camera reduces to a pinhole.
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Lisa K. Friedman, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
This reduces the energy required for the zinc ions to shed their surrounding solvent shell and deposit onto the electrode.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
Bright sunlight is a big migraine trigger for me, so wearing these sunglasses reduces my exposure.
—Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 27 Sep. 2025
The exemption reduces the amount of a home's value that is taxed by $28,000.
—Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
Studies in psychology have long shown that telling one’s story, especially in a safe and supportive setting, reduces feelings of shame and disconnection.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
This diffuser reduces the speed of heat and guarantees a very gentle blow-dry.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
This reduces the risk of reusing weak passwords that scammers can easily exploit to gain unauthorized access to your accounts.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Unlike the closed-coupe Chiron, which cocoons you from its inner workings, the Mistral delivers a raw mechanical sound bath, tempered only by a pop-in wind deflector (fixed in examples for North America)—just aft of the seats—that reduces cabin turbulence and shields air-flow.
—Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2025
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As the Universe expands, the wavelength of each photon gets lengthened by the expansion, meaning that the amount of energy present in the form of radiation decreases faster than the amount of energy present in the form of matter in the expanding Universe.—
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As the storm moves away, this likelihood decreases.—
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Reducing the amount of information available about you online lowers your risk.—
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Cooking garlic lowers its allicin content since heat breaks it down.—
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Polysulfides dissolve and migrate, which degrades battery performance and shortens its lifespan.—
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This rampant, unauthorized AI use degrades the educational experience of individual students who overly rely on the technology and those who wish to avoid using it.—
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The result is not just one exhausted employee, but a system that steadily depletes its people.—
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Meanwhile, an iron-core collapse supernova happens after a star more than 10 times our sun’s mass finally depletes all its fuel and subsequently collapses into a neutron star or black hole.—
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At one moment in the concerto, the soloist—here the brilliant, committed young pianist Jeonghwan Kim—silently depresses a C-major triad with the left hand and then bangs out a C-major triad with the right, so that the lower strings resonate.—
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As the user depresses a key, the backside of the key (which is not visible) touches a thin layer of material.—
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Give ample space to large vehicles - Trucks or buses can create a water spray that diminishes visibility.—
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The incentive diminishes after a certain stage of growth and the curve takes on an S shape.—
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The distance of the skim is measured to the point where the stone sinks below the water.—
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People have to decide instantly whether to open or delay, and if the subject line does not signal importance, the email sinks to the bottom of the inbox.—
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“Reduces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduces. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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