diminish
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As for U.S. market fallout, compute demand would also decline, putting semiconductor stocks under pressure as the incentive to train cutting-edge models would diminish, she said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 15, 2026
This problem is actually temporary because members of the the massive baby boom generation are now largely retired, and their numbers will gradually diminish in the years ahead.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026
Time didn’t diminish his creativity, Hockney explained to The Wall Street Journal in 2014, because “the joy and urge to draw is an ancient, 40,000-year-old impulse.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
“It was used to diminish me, silence me, isolate me and cast me and my independent thoughts, words and deeds as suspicious.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The weight of his steel seemed to hardly diminish the grace and quickness with which Ser Loras moved, his rainbow cloak swirling about him.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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