MINIFYING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

minifying

verb

present participle of minify

as in reducing

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The new councilmember will face pressure to increase revenue and cut costs without reducing access to city services or compromising their quality.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
The legislation would give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission greater authority over cryptocurrency trading while reducing the Securities and Exchange Commission's role in overseeing certain digital assets.

— Mike Winters, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026

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Her priorities include lowering costs by expanding Medicaid, fully funded pre-kindergarten and decreasing property taxes in a sustainable way.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2026
Black representation is already decreasing at City Hall, a concern among some Black community leaders.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

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Sure, the company was going to lay off 1,000 employees, downsizing its product, tech, and legal departments, and was ousting its chief content officer, film chairman, and film vice president.

— Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 23 Oct. 2026
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

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Kikuchi makes Haru’s occasionally mortifying romantic pursuit both funny and affecting, embracing the character’s impulsive, sometimes ridiculous behavior without diminishing the depth of her loss.

— Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
The good news is that its strongest winds and heaviest rain will remain over the Atlantic, with impacts along our coastline gradually diminishing.

— Kate Bilo, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

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Her ever-shortening list of agents associated with Wildflower leads her to attempt to team up again with Laila, who Conteh says was dropped from active duty about six months ago and has been AWOL ever since.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
Leaves are falling, days are shortening, and there’s a chill in the air.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

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McKinney has focused his campaign on lessening the city’s homelessness crisis by leveraging people into treatment, tackling quality-of-life crimes, and reducing the city’s out-of-control legal costs.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Nearly the entire state remains in drought conditions, despite fall rain and the season’s first snows in the high country lessening the severity of the aridity.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026

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