as in reducing
to diminish the price or value of
marked down all seasonal goods immediately after the holidays
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The French prime minister was widely expected to lose the motion after failing to win support from political rivals on both the right and left for 2026 budget plans aimed at reducing the country's yawning budget deficit.—
Ganesh Rao,Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025 -
At Tufts University, scientists have developed a new drug that aims to boost weight loss while also reducing the nausea, muscle loss and weight regain associated with popular GLP-1 medications.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In 2019, after massive layoffs and lost sales, the company shocked Wall Street by writing down the value of marquee brands Oscar Mayer and Kraft by $15 billion.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025
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Two weeks later, the Virgo solar eclipse asks you to ground those dreams by actually making the calls, sending the emails, or writing down the plan.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Aug. 2025
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Instead of writing off entire nations, development banks could channel financing to subnational jurisdictions that demonstrate resilience.—
Robert Ginsburg,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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But folks aren’t writing off Clemson now.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Marking down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marking%20down. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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