as in reduced
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
the company downsized its overseas operations in an attempt to cut costs
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Recent Examples of downsized
The Armadillo chain downsized to one restaurant, on Bridgepointe Parkway in Foster City.
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Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Delays can increase the chances that a project ultimately is downsized – as happened with ConocoPhillips’ Willow project in Alaska – or canceled altogether.
—Skip York, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025
This group of women generally gravitates toward the industries that have been cut, downsized, or eliminated altogether.
—Jeannette Wade, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
The company quickly downsized its hiring projections.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
The partnership ended and the stores went dark in 2020 as Nordstrom downsized its store fleet in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
The company was downsized 50% in one year in what was considered the largest upheaval in corporate history.
—Arianna Huffington, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Erected by Pope Innocent III for his family in the early 13th century, the tower was originally twice as high, but was downsized after earthquakes damaged it during the 14th and 17th centuries.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Supervisors then pivoted to Lemon Grove and downsized the scope of the proposal, which originally included 150 tiny homes.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for downsized
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While many areas are seeing visibility reduced to between one and three miles, patchy dense fog is reducing visibilities to as low as one quarter mile in spots.—
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Unable to turn back against the strong currents of the Napo, the party, now reduced to just 50, carried on downriver toward the Amazon.—
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Content licensing revenues decreased 27% to $59 million primarily due to the timing and availability of deliveries in the period.—
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The median sale price for detached homes remained flat at $650,000, while attached homes decreased by 3% to $388,220.—
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“Downsized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/downsized. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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