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as in demotes
to bring to a lower grade or rank
was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court
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as in decreases
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement
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as in lowers
to diminish the price or value of
a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade
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Recent Examples of reduces
According to the Department of Transportation, daylight saving time saves energy, prevents traffic injuries and reduces crime.
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Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025
Cold water reduces those problems for all your clothes and linens, giving them a longer lifespan.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
However, uncertainty in Melissa’s track and forward speed reduces confidence in exact totals.
—Miami Herald Hurricane Bot, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Stretching is an additional tool that improves flexibility, reduces stress, and favorably influences blood pressure, which is linked to long-term cardiovascular risk, Grant said.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
This movement allows extraction and oxidation, but holds the ethanol in and reduces evaporation.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
Kombucha is a fermented tea that contains some sugar, but fermentation reduces how much your body actually absorbs.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
The breakthrough reduces debinding time to less than 30 minutes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025
Cold water reduces those problems for all your clothes and linens, giving them a longer lifespan.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
However, uncertainty in Melissa’s track and forward speed reduces confidence in exact totals.
—Miami Herald Hurricane Bot, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Stretching is an additional tool that improves flexibility, reduces stress, and favorably influences blood pressure, which is linked to long-term cardiovascular risk, Grant said.
—Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
This movement allows extraction and oxidation, but holds the ethanol in and reduces evaporation.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
Kombucha is a fermented tea that contains some sugar, but fermentation reduces how much your body actually absorbs.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 18 Oct. 2025
People who were gestating during the famine grew up to have smaller brains; their kidneys had fewer nephrons, which reduces the organs’ effectiveness.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025
The breakthrough reduces debinding time to less than 30 minutes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reduces
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That’s important because your power naturally and rapidly decreases as you age, Booker says.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
24 Oct. 2025
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For instance, frequently reloading a gun before the ammo counter hits zero will present a Flaw called Overprepared, which increases each gun’s magazine size but temporarily decreases a character’s damage output if a gun does reach zero ammo before a reload.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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This approach lowers costs, accelerates delivery, and — by integrating superior technology on these platforms at scale — ensures that America has both the fleet size and the industrial depth needed to respond to a crisis.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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When the Fed lowers rates, the prime rate comes down, too, and the interest rate on your credit card debt is likely to adjust within a billing cycle or two.—
Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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The goal is to understand exactly how and why performance degrades over time.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
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Gasoline mixed with ethanol degrades even faster than pure gasoline and may not even last three months.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Oct. 2025
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The result is not just one exhausted employee, but a system that steadily depletes its people.—
Sandro da Silva,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, an iron-core collapse supernova happens after a star more than 10 times our sun’s mass finally depletes all its fuel and subsequently collapses into a neutron star or black hole.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2025
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Their style of pitching — relentlessly pound the strike zone — works well in a ballpark where the thick air depresses doubles and triples.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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As Aerohart explains of its own device, the user simply puts the tinder – char cloth seems to be the most recommended – inside the cavity at the tip of the removable piston rod, reinstalls the piston back into the cylinder, then firmly and rapidly depresses it.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Oct. 2025
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Give ample space to large vehicles - Trucks or buses can create a water spray that diminishes visibility.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Oct. 2025
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At the risk of over-generalizing, as the protein content of a drink rises, its deliciousness diminishes.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Oct. 2025
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In 1699, the French frigate Maurepas sinks off the coast of an uninhabited part of Panama, taking with it a load full of gold, silver and jewels gifted from Charles II of Spain to King Louis XIV of France.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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The vessel then gradually sinks deeper and deeper into the sea until it is fully submerged by the end of the clip.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Reduces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduces. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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