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adjective

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Recent Examples of downscale
Verb
In 2012, just out of Texas State University, Whitney Miller was peddling cheesy products on The Liquidation Channel, kind of a downscale Home Shopping Network. Jim Clash, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023 The red-walled first gallery emphasizes naturalistic black-and-white images of everyday life, mostly downscale. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
Adjective
The festival has downscaled in recent years, contracting its week-long structure to a five-day frame after the COVID pandemic, with all screenings now housed in the TCL Chinese Theatres. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2024 For efficiency, the researchers downscale the output frames from the NES' 256×240 resolution to a much muddier 64×48. Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for downscale
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downscale
Verb
  • Made with prebiotic oat to soothe irritation and support the skin barrier, the gentle cream also has feverfew extract, which is packed with antioxidants that reduce redness and further calm irritation.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Funding used in high school for more than 29 credit hours will reduce scholarship eligibility after high school by one year, and more than 59 credit hours will reduce eligibility by two years.
    Edward McKinnon, Arkansas Online, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Another down-market strategy is tax-loss harvesting.
    Letitia Berbaum, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • Microsoft is introducing a pair of new Surface devices today, both aimed slightly down-market from the 11th-generation Surface Pro tablet and 7th-generation Surface Laptop that the company released last spring.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • This risk decreases as the storm moves away.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As the storm moves away, this likelihood decreases.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In part, the movie focuses on the connection between the veteran, working-class-style Brewers lineup and the city of Milwaukee, which in the early 1980s was reeling from the recession.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • See You At The Finish Line follows Lucas, a sharp-witted, working-class rower, and George, an American golden-boy captain, whose uneasy alliance evolves into a tender but combustible love story against the backdrop of the famous boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.
    Brian Sloan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Downscale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downscale. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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