How to Use reductive in a Sentence

reductive

adjective

• This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• But all of that would make for a standard and rather reductive thriller.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• At its most reductive, this dish is Martínez’s take on chips and dip.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• Slightly reductive on the nose with a touch of smoke and some over ripe green fruits.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• But at the same time, there is something reductive about the last third of the book.
  — Noah Hawley, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• Puryear’s best work is reductive, striving to reach an essence.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• To just do something that takes place in an office seemed much just very reductive.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2026
• Black life, that is realized here in the most reductive of forms.
  — Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• But there is something about the culture that is, at the very least, reductive.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
• Or that’s the simple, arguably reductive way to think about it.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• But what’s not is letting the buzz veer into reductive rhetoric.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
• There is something reductive about this kind of writing, right?
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022
• Keep in mind that this is a fairly reductive way to view overall health and wellness.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• But that’s too reductive for what Lin has done here, which is to write a crime novel as a slice of life.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• To call him a director feels reductive.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
• But to tag it as a roguelike with salt water is probably too reductive.
  — Matt Peckham, WIRED, 11 July 2014
• So now that that old definition of greatness has proven reductive, what does the term mean?
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• This suggests there will be winners and losers — framing that at times feels overly reductive.
  — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• To many readers, all of this will seem both obvious and somewhat reductive.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Trump and Sessions blame this gang violence on drugs, but that's reductive to say the least.
  — Don Winslow, Time, 20 June 2017
• But there is a point where the chase for efficiency becomes reductive.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• These are fables, which means on some level these 30-minute stories have to be reductive in some way.
  — Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• To say this was a reductive summation of both of their work is an understatement.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 19 July 2019
• This is a choice forced by health-care economics and reductive ideas about the line between living and dying.
  — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
• This is not the case, and reductive thinking keeps those most vulnerable from feeling seen or heard.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 25 May 2021
• Yet the film also wants to cue us to the gossipy and reductive way that this kind of thinking has too often been applied to her.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2024
• The products read like Product, with a design so reductive there could be anything in there.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Approaching it in those reductive terms isn’t helpful.
  — Hayley Matz Meadvin, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
• The play draws direct, and at times reductive, parallels between the past and recent present.
  — Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• Yes, the lead was stupidly reductive, but nothing a little self-soothing at the minibar couldn’t fix.
  — Karen Karbo, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019