downsizes

present tense third-person singular of downsize

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Recent Examples of downsizes The movie follows Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game) as Yoo Man-su, a man who is fired from his job at a paper manufacturing company after an American company buys out his company and downsizes. Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026 His loving, pragmatic wife, Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), gamely downsizes their middle-class life to fit their new reality — but her resoluteness only exacerbates his despair. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downsizes
Verb
  • First, adding nutrients reduces the amount of carbon that plants send below ground to microbes.
    Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • Classifying workers as independent contractors reduces overhead, simplifies hiring and feels flexible.
    Gary Galstyan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Verb
  • Eat plenty of fiber, which aids digestion and decreases your risk.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 7 July 2026
  • As greenhouse gases cool and shrink this upper atmospheric region, atmospheric drag decreases.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026

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“Downsizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downsizes. Accessed 12 Jul. 2026.

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