decreasing

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Decreasing enrollment is challenging school systems up and down the state because it means they receive less revenue without a corresponding decrease in overhead and staffing costs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2025

Decreasing calories without depriving the body of essential vitamins and minerals, known as calorie restriction, has long been known to delay the progression of age-related diseases in animal models.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2023

Decreasing India's dependence on Russia for its defense needs and increasing its own manufacturing capabilities will be among the top themes discussed between the two countries, the second source said.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2023

Decreasing the ratio of product size to price only advantages profit margins.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

Decreasing the angle minute by minute, the ellipse becomes first perceptibly eccentric, then manifestly so, and by and by acquires so immensely elongated a form, as to bear no recognizable resemblance to a circle.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert