reductive
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Reductive carboxylation acts directly on the generation of metabolites, small chemical elements that modify histones, to influence DNA packaging and to prevent accessibility to longevity genes.
From Science Daily • Sep. 20, 2023
Reductive though this may sound, “We Should Not Be Friends” is an object lesson in the difference between male and female communication styles.
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Reductive, ghoulish and surpassingly boring, “Blonde” might have invented a new cinematic genre: necro-fiction.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022
Reductive characterization of "musical admirers" and sloppily inaccurate prison metaphor aside . . . do you promise?
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2019
Reductive storytelling like this can have a place in making complicated phenomena more relatable for humans.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2017
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