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to express scornfully one's low opinion of
sore losers trying to minimize the other team's victory
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Recent Examples of minimizing
Jacob A Tennessen, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
Each head has its own wiper and pad for the nozzle to sit on, minimizing oozing between swaps.
—Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
Accept the opening without minimizing it.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
This streamlined architecture reduces cable clutter, improves reliability by minimizing potential failure points, lowers overall weight, and simplifies maintenance and troubleshooting.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
Your oil of choice acts as a protective barrier, helping prevent shampoos from stripping away natural moisture while also minimizing protein loss.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 8 June 2026
This heating capability could eventually support magnetic hyperthermia treatments, an experimental cancer therapy that uses heat to damage or destroy tumors while minimizing harm to surrounding tissue.
—New Atlas, 8 June 2026
As with minimizing soil disturbance, this, too, helps tremendously with controlling erosion, increasing the carbon content of soil and conserving moisture.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Ambush hunting enables energy conservation while minimizing the risks associated with pursuit; remaining motionless in water for hours also costs comparatively little.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
The risk of adaptation is highest under a continuous, strong selection pressure, so minimizing, switching and staggering pesticides can help thwart resistance.
—Jacob A Tennessen, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
Three-dimensional tracking of meteors is a game changer, allowing scientists to pinpoint landing sites and retrieve meteorites rapidly after impact, minimizing contamination from our terrestrial environment.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
Each head has its own wiper and pad for the nozzle to sit on, minimizing oozing between swaps.
—Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 10 June 2026
Accept the opening without minimizing it.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
This streamlined architecture reduces cable clutter, improves reliability by minimizing potential failure points, lowers overall weight, and simplifies maintenance and troubleshooting.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
Your oil of choice acts as a protective barrier, helping prevent shampoos from stripping away natural moisture while also minimizing protein loss.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 8 June 2026
This heating capability could eventually support magnetic hyperthermia treatments, an experimental cancer therapy that uses heat to damage or destroy tumors while minimizing harm to surrounding tissue.
—New Atlas, 8 June 2026
As with minimizing soil disturbance, this, too, helps tremendously with controlling erosion, increasing the carbon content of soil and conserving moisture.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Ambush hunting enables energy conservation while minimizing the risks associated with pursuit; remaining motionless in water for hours also costs comparatively little.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimizing
Noun
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These disparagements cut to the core of southern manhood.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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The contract contained a non-disparagement clause, and in law, the special thing about disparagement is that unlike defamation, the truth is not a defense against disparagement.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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As the media fixates on the digital natives known as Gen Z and Gen Alpha — often dismissing them as antisocial and entitled members of society — Saturday’s celebration showed that younger generations might actually have it all under control.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Democrats criticized Republicans for dismissing attempts at meaningful reform.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Apolline may embrace the social media aspects of her career but George’s belittlement rankles her.—
Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The swell on Saturday, which brought moderate 3-to 5-foot surf, was diminishing by the evening and into Sunday, said Sebastian Westerink, meteorologist for the National Weather Service.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
7 June 2026
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This put him in the unusual position of being both an embarrassment and a hugely valuable asset to the BBC, as well as the focus of frequent criticism from the UK’s right-leaning media, most of whom have a commercial interest in diminishing the BBC.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
4 June 2026
Verb
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The four leaders have also angered Trump by criticizing how he’s gone about executing the war and his lack of consultation with allies before jumping into a conflict that’s hurt the global economy as oil prices have surged.—
Aamer Madhani,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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The four leaders have also angered Trump by criticizing how he's gone about executing the war and his lack of consultation with allies before jumping into a conflict that's hurt the global economy as oil prices have surged.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 June 2026
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“Minimizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimizing. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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