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as in to demote
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 to decrease
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 to lower
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 reduce
Prescribed fires help reduce overgrown vegetation to help protect local communities, infrastructure and natural resources from wildfires.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
More importantly, the Venezuelan people deserve the chance to rebuild their society without fear and without being reduced to symbols in someone else's geopolitical argument.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Jan. 2026
While the companies have not clarified where locations will be closing, financial constraints have pushed them to reduce their national footprint.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 9 Jan. 2026
These steps help reduce risk when emails look familiar and legitimate.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
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Hegseth this week backed off that losing proposition and instead issued a censure for Kelly and started a process to demote him in retirement, which would reduce his pension.—
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The senator and Navy veteran isn’t likely to be cowed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s lawless attempt to silence him by seeking to demote him post-retirement.—
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Newsom claims homelessness decline Newsom during his final State of the State address Thursday claimed the state’s homeless population decreased last year.—
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Meanwhile, the number of job openings have decreased nearly 10% on the year to 729,000 in the September to November period from a year ago, the ONS found.—
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His mother previously told the Observer that his mental health degraded in the COVID-19 pandemic.—
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The information ecosystem is degrading more each moment.—
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Merchants are seeing this wobbly job market help to depress consumer confidence.—
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This sounds like depressing stuff, and Mothertongue is not extremely upbeat.—
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But handing over that much oil to the United States may deplete Venezuela’s own oil reserves.—
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However, from the first charging cycle, lithium deposits directly onto the copper, quickly depleting the electrolyte and creating an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI).—
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Langkawi, Malaysia Reuters — The number of people confirmed dead after a boat carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya community sank near the Thailand-Malaysia border rose to 11 on Monday, authorities said, with about 70 people believed to have been on board the capsized vessel.—
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What caused the Edmund Fitzgerald to sink remains a point of debate and mystery a half-century later.—
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Still seething after a sloppy 19-16 loss to the Detroit Lions, Johnson wasn’t hiding his dissatisfaction with a defeat that seemed to diminish his team’s momentum.—
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Kaufman moved there 30 years ago, and since that time the island’s community has diminished by degrees, its youth lured away by better employment prospects in Provo and overseas.—
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As Science Alert points out, light also attenuates and degrades over long distances.—
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China will be their biggest source of external influence but not by a huge margin, and many other countries, including the United States, Australia, India, and Japan, will attenuate Beijing’s sway.—
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“Reduce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reduce. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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