minimize
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The goal is to minimize total taxes on savings in retirement accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Goldberg painted Grant as the mastermind who, once caught, tried to minimize his involvement and turn over “a big fish” like Banks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Industry executives say they will make good on promises to pay more for power and minimize water consumption, but many locals don’t trust the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“This weapon might help minimize corruption but with collateral damage,” John F. Hulpke, a professor at University College Dublin, wrote in the Journal of Management Inquiry in 2017.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
The curriculum was extremely quantitative, focused on figuring out how to maximize benefits and minimize costs, without much concern for what those benefits achieved and the costs created.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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It minimizes your role in your marriage and in your life, and it attempts to put you in a box.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 6, 2026
Los Azules has promised to use an extraction method that minimizes water use.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
"By combining optical nonlinear sensing, which effectively minimizes background noise, with an amplification-free design, our method offers a distinct balance of speed and precision."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
“In many cases, firefighters use water to douse and cool nearby structures to keep the fire from spreading further. This minimizes additional damage to the facilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Classic style minimizes abstractions, which cannot be seen with the naked eye.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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But it also suggests that viewers are mature enough to absorb the tougher truths omitted from Wilder’s original vision, as well as the roles of others who were minimized, like Sims’ good doctor.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Sun reported her exit and minimized screen time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
"Strikingly, when this receptor was removed from the mice, the development of arterial plaques dropped significantly in some areas and disruptions to the gut microbiome were minimized."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026
I have sat across from women who were deeply afraid, and I have watched as their fears were minimized, explained away, or ignored by the very systems meant to protect them.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2026
Rather than depending on just a few crops that could fail, they minimized risk by developing an economy based on a great variety of wild foods, not all of which were likely to fail simultaneously.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Terra Drone’s answer: Unmanned aerial vehicles that use radar, cameras and artificial intelligence to collide with hostile drones, minimizing the need for highly trained pilots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
One possibility the team is especially interested in is using the technology aboard satellites, where minimizing size, weight and power consumption is particularly important.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Retirement planning isn’t about minimizing taxes this year, it’s about minimizing taxes over your lifetime,” said Easton Price, a certified financial planner at Prosperity Wealth Planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
Most seemed to think he’s guilty, even as they used minimizing language.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Gripping with all his strength, Drum faced into the storm, his streamlined body minimizing the wind.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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