MINIFYING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

minifying

verb

present participle of minify

as in reducing

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Recently, the sector has been affected by El Nino, which brings weak monsoons and dry weather, reducing yields and sucrose recovery.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Other options include reducing the level of your contributions, although there is a minimum of 5% of pay for employees and 3% for employers.

— Marc Shoffman, TheWeek, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of reducing

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Academics and researchers have proposed a wide variety of causes for the crisis, like changes in the economy, decreasing social connections, access to firearms, and the pandemic.

— Darius Tahir, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Overall sales have been on a downward trend since the gallery’s founding, decreasing by about 40 percent over the past three years.

— News Desk, Artforum, 7 Oct. 2026

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Partly because of the notion that artificial intelligence was likely to contribute to downsizing, the memo ended up being widely shared across the company.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
In a world where everyone is downsizing, including car manufacturers making their engines smaller, GM has gone the opposite way.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of downsizing

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Between terrorism and global warming and diminishing natural resources, the world is out of balance.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Basic tasks like summarization, translation and drafting offer diminishing differentiation as tools become widespread.

— Fabio Caversan, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminishing

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But the decline of regional sports networks has changed the math in baseball, which is now actively considering shortening its season.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
De Meo is also scaling the ‘see-now, buy-now’ model, shortening the development and production cycle so that runway items hit the stores faster.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of shortening

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Going into his fourth season leading the Mets, the pressure isn’t lessening.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
House lawmakers have introduced a slew of new bills this month aimed at lessening the impact of gas and fuel prices on Americans' budgets, including floating a tax deduction.

— CJ Haddad, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2026

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