as in reduced
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs
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Recent Examples of downsized
The main event, downsized to a sideshow.
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Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
In a market where layoffs will continue, teams will be downsized, and budgets will be cut.
—Mita Mallick, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Plus, there’s no guarantee in job hugging that your current job won’t be downsized.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Lee Byung-hun stars as Man-soo, a middle-aged family man who gets downsized in a corporate merger at the film’s onset and spends the rest of the movie ever more desperate to maintain his former standard of comfort.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The Yankees, Mets and Rockies are all in new stadiums, and the Blue Jays downsized their building last year.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2025
As companies downsized and cut their PR and communications teams, many ultimately had to find leaner solutions.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2025
On the unscripted side, Lifetime cut the majority of its non-scripted team last month and there have been a number of production companies that have downsized, and some even gone out of business.
—Peter White, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Engineering and training teams are downsized.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
In a market where layoffs will continue, teams will be downsized, and budgets will be cut.
—Mita Mallick, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Plus, there’s no guarantee in job hugging that your current job won’t be downsized.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Lee Byung-hun stars as Man-soo, a middle-aged family man who gets downsized in a corporate merger at the film’s onset and spends the rest of the movie ever more desperate to maintain his former standard of comfort.
—Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
The Yankees, Mets and Rockies are all in new stadiums, and the Blue Jays downsized their building last year.
—Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2025
As companies downsized and cut their PR and communications teams, many ultimately had to find leaner solutions.
—Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2025
On the unscripted side, Lifetime cut the majority of its non-scripted team last month and there have been a number of production companies that have downsized, and some even gone out of business.
—Peter White, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Engineering and training teams are downsized.
—Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downsized
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But a House Fiscal Agency report shows that total artificially reduced by the way billions in federal funding is accounted for, by moving Medicaid money to contingency funds where they are not included in the budget total.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal spending on Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — another priority for Democrats — will be reduced by more than $1 trillion over the next decade as a result of provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Production at the company’s mill grew 124 percent, but carbon emissions and electricity consumption decreased 18 percent, respectively.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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These numbers have since decreased—only 16% live in poverty and 35% of Gen Z are considered low-income as of 2023—but these numbers are still notably higher than those of millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomers.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Downsized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downsized. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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