Obviously, that’s a fair assumption if his ice time is meaningfully reduced, and the same goes for Draisaitl.
—
Janson Duench,
New York Times,
25 Aug. 2026
The development comes as the global shipping industry contends with attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, higher energy prices, and sharply reduced traffic through some of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.
In the decade between 2026 and 2016, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the hours men spend on household activities have fractionally increased, while the hours carried out by women have slightly decreased.
—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
23 Aug. 2026
This number has decreased since 2015, when nearly 20% of Connecticut adults used tobacco products.
The 11-day, summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises began Monday morning as scheduled and it wasn’t known which parts of the training were being downsized.
—
Hyung-Jin Kim,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Aug. 2026
Ada County’s largest roundabout was recently downsized after highway officials observed that certain types of crashes were on the rise.
—
Rose Evans
August 16,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Aug. 2026
And the Sox received a bit of a bad break in the eighth with a 1-hour, 28-minute rain delay that shortened Grant Taylor’s relief outing to one inning.
—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2026
With Jeanie’s power firmly defined by the court, the Lakers signed LeBron James in 2018, traded for Anthony Davis in 2019 and won a title during a season shortened by COVID in 2020.
—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Aug. 2026
The term refers to when tobacco companies in the 1990s were forced to pay billions of dollars for misleading the public about the safety and potential harms of their products, and subsequently saw their power and influence dramatically diminished.
—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2026
But the likelihood of finding more survivors has diminished sharply since the first 72 hours after the earthquake.
—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
18 Aug. 2026
Finance and insurance, often abbreviated to F&I, often contributes an outsized share of gross profit compared with revenue.
—
Robert Ferris,
CNBC,
19 Aug. 2026
Menu descriptions arrive as terse little trios—tuna, foie gras and shiso; cuttlefish, buckwheat and celtuce; turbot, lettuce and sake—but the cooking behind them is anything but abbreviated.
It's become harder for NFL scouts to evaluate a prospect's hunger, but the fears of how players will react to making money have lessened.
—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2026
The safety concerns that come with bipedal robots—such as potentially falling over on a human worker—are lessened because a shipyard environment is staffed with workers who are trained to work around potentially dangerous industrial equipment.
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.