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as in consumes
to make complete use of
miners depleted the vein of copper ore after only a few months
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as in reduces
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
disease and battlefield casualties had depleted troop strength to dangerously low levels
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Recent Examples of depletes
The result is not just one exhausted employee, but a system that steadily depletes its people.
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Sandro Da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
These behemoths emit intense radiation that heats and depletes cold gas, the most important ingredient for star formation.
—Shreejaya Karantha, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
This binding depletes lithium available for nearby cells, including important scavengers known as microglia.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Lack of sleep disrupts your hormones, depletes your energy, and can affect your mood.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Sandro Da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
These behemoths emit intense radiation that heats and depletes cold gas, the most important ingredient for star formation.
—Shreejaya Karantha, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2025
This binding depletes lithium available for nearby cells, including important scavengers known as microglia.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
Lack of sleep disrupts your hormones, depletes your energy, and can affect your mood.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for depletes
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Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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Altman previously said the average ChatGPT query consumes as much energy as a lightbulb would in a couple of minutes.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Kombucha is a fermented tea that contains some sugar, but fermentation reduces how much your body actually absorbs.—
Sarah Garone,
Health,
18 Oct. 2025
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People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Oct. 2025
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The company says the modification ensures rainwater drains more effectively and the tent better sheds snow so as not to get overloaded.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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Fill the pot with loose, slightly acidic soil that drains quickly.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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Once the wind enters the open valley, the velocity decreases, and the grains are deposited.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Oct. 2025
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Alcohol decreases helpful gut microbes and increases harmful microbes.—
Cynthia Sass,
Health,
21 Oct. 2025
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Vaccarello, who was born and raised in Belgium to Sicilian parents, spends a month in Los Angeles twice each year, usually in March and November, a recuperation from the semiannual exertions of the women’s collection.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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According to the real-estate search engine StreetEasy, a property in Park Slope spends a median of seventy-eight days on the market.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Give ample space to large vehicles - Trucks or buses can create a water spray that diminishes visibility.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The federal determination highlights how permitting males to compete on female teams displaces female athletes from podiums, denies them advancement opportunities, and diminishes their visibility and recognition in competitions.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Nothing, not even the slog of a miles long backcountry ski, exhausts me like chugging upward on two wheels.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
15 Oct. 2025
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Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The most common isotope, plutonium-239, is produced when the most common isotope of uranium, uranium-238, absorbs a neutron and then quickly decays to plutonium.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Key Takeaways Spinach is high in iron, but the body absorbs it less easily than iron from meat.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Depletes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depletes. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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