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Recent Examples of economize Hotels and airlines are increasingly catering to high-dollar customers, who’ve been expanding their holiday travel plans while lower-income ones economize. J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024 Healthcare providers can consider investing in the development of new, high-value treatments and technological approaches that improve outcomes while economizing on long-term costs, such as innovative practices that use minimally invasive surgical strategies. Shakeel Ahmed, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 With London looking to economize abroad, British diplomats told their American counterparts in February 1947 that the United Kingdom would withdraw from the eastern Mediterranean, leaving a power vacuum in Greece and Turkey. Melvyn P. Leffler, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018 The idea—so far just a proposal before the U.S. aerospace community—is to economize on propellant by using its mass just for momentum, rather than burning it for energy. Philip E. Ross, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2011 See All Example Sentences for economize
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  • Her efforts saved the animal’s life and landed her in her hometown newspaper, The Mountain Eagle, which was the first to write about the dramatic rescue and resuscitation.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • These annual gifts can also reduce the size of your taxable estate, saving more of your lifetime exemption for future inheritances.
    Nathalie Goldstein, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Congress decided to make daylight saving time permanent for two years from 1973 to 1975, extending the hours of daily sunlight year-round to conserve energy during the oil embargo crisis.
    Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Just as geese conserve energy by flying in formation, teams conserve cognitive bandwidth when social and task rhythms are predictable.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • The atmosphere also helped play a role in the rapid demise of Hurricane Lorena off the Mexico coast, sparing that region a direct landfall.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Even more impressive, at the end of the journey, the EV still had range to spare.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025

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

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