reductive
Example Sentences
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This distinguishes it unfavorably from the traditional western, which, however reductive or politically wrongheaded, has always known how to keep an audience interested.
The reductive strategy so nearly secured successive World Cup finals - but often proved soporific for supporters.
From BBC
The study’s approach is highly reductive, and the posted paper doesn’t offer a full list of cases and ratings.
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
At the risk of being reductive, the problem is that these markets each want different things from Audi.
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