minified

past tense of minify

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • Educator turnover in Wisconsin public schools has decreased from pandemic highs but remains elevated.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After just a few minutes on each arm, the soreness had noticeably decreased, and my arms looked more defined and less puffy, especially near the underarm area where water retention tends to settle.
    Francesca Krempa, StyleCaster, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The main event, downsized to a sideshow.
    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
Verb
  • The tokamak—shortened from toroidal chamber magnetic—uses powerful magnets.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In California, vehicle miles traveled — the amount of distance that people travel in cars, often shortened to VMT — has increased significantly since 2000.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So how the hell did that happen when cinematic box office is diminished generally?
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Cyber threats have not diminished, and CFOs are as vigilant as ever, Gallucci noted.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rest of the quintet — vocalist Dexter Holland, bassist Todd Morse, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Nimoy and drummer Brandon Pertzborn — then joined in for a rocking (yet, sadly, abbreviated) take on that same album’s legendary title track.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury, which is abbreviated as mm Hg.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • When that happens, the refrigerant evaporates and gets compressed at a very high pressure–typically several hundred pounds per square inch.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Baseball’s compressed Wild Card Series can get as unpredictable as its name suggests.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The demand, even if lessened, will still warrant offering larger sizes, but some marquee names now want to farm out their plus-sized clothing to outside vendors instead of making their own label.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • For example, with credit card fraud detection, the cost for each undetected fraudulent transaction might be lessened if the bank has fraud insurance or if the bank's enforcement activities recoup some fraud losses downstream.
    Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Minified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minified. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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