diminish

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Stephen Douglass, chief economist at NISA, noted that Powell highlighted diminishing stagflation risks, with both upside risks to inflation and downside risks to employment easing.

From Barron's

By 6 p.m. the smoke had diminished, but orders remained in place “out of an abundance of caution,” Navarre said.

From Los Angeles Times

Raman had attempted to fast track her proposal, saying putting it on the June ballot would help diminish support for the Jarvis measure.

From Los Angeles Times

The researchers used a measure called DALYs, which represents the number of years lost to either early death or diminished quality of life from illness.

From Barron's

Not even Dickensian “A Christmas Carol” visitations by the specters of his father and an Indonesian business partner negotiating a project involving a sandstone reservoir with “significant extraction costs” diminish his concomitant guilt and chagrin.

From Los Angeles Times