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At the same time, selling off or reducing Tata Trust’s stake would diminish its role—and by extension the family’s—in the firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“I believe the VIX is currently being suppressed by options flows and other dynamics. Those effects should diminish after tomorrow’s expiration,” Kramer said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

David Tamayo, head of Colombia's disaster relief agency, acknowledged that the "likelihood of finding survivors is going to diminish" after Thursday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I would never seek to diminish or dismiss any survivor's experience, or to make anyone feel that their pain was not heard or understood," they added.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

If the pain didn’t diminish then, the familiar yet strange sights hypnotized me into believing that it had.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

The "gender pace gap" diminishes to 0.25% in 100-mile races, according to a study, external of more than 10 years of amateur ultra-race conducted by RunRepeat, in collaboration with the International Association of Ultrarunners.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

But because it’s so integrative, balance diminishes faster than strength as we age, Burbank says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

But it’s also empirically obvious that the wider the inequality, the more social solidarity diminishes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

None of this diminishes the extraordinary technical skill of early anatomists.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 21, 2026

Summed up in one perfect sentence by Donne - ‘Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde’ - the movement was a ray of sunshine peeping out from behind storm clouds.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

In some sense, it is a miracle that the party survived, though it has held on in a deeply diminished fashion.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Military planners worry the U.S. has rushed so many munitions to the Middle East that America’s ability to defend against potential threats from China and Russia has been diminished, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The rights holder typically airs specials promoting the show on affiliated TV stations and morning show segments, although those advantages have mattered less in recent years as traditional viewing has diminished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

But that breakthrough represented the first effort in a long career spent exposing exploitative working conditions for women other journalists diminished or outright dismissed.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

NOTE: The type of interval or chord — major, minor, diminished, etc., is not important when you are determining the position of the chord.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

It’s another reminder of the diminishing trust in today’s job market, like the questionable future of the cover letter.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dale pointed to how his own father would often tell him "I love you" after letting him down, diminishing the meaning of the words.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

The US cattle herd has shrunk to its lowest level since the 1950s -- in part due to drought and international competition -- with the diminishing herd size pushing cattle prices higher.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

With the adoption of artificial intelligence promising—or threatening—to return ever greater rewards to a diminishing number of those best placed to exploit it, the trends will intensify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

One day he darkened the diminishing bruise with a bit of purple crayon.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli