diminish
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“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
“Once you have the bypass, then you diminish the threat of further closure,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
But as those buffers diminish, crude markets may once again see gains over the months ahead.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Yardeni expects the Federal Reserve will turn more hawkish on interest rates during the summer, which would stall a gold rally, but the end of the Iran conflict would should help diminish that impact.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
Theory dictated that if the supposed disintegration were occurring within the nucleus’s electric field, the production of protons and neutrons would diminish as the targets got heavier.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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