- present participle of lessen.
lessening
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McKinney has focused his campaign on lessening the city’s homelessness crisis by leveraging people into treatment, tackling quality-of-life crimes, and reducing the city’s out-of-control legal costs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
“While global inventories have been drawing down, the market still seems focused on lessening demand and gradual supply being added.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Yes, it’s too high, he says, but he suggests that his housing plan will deploy a trickle-down approach that starts with lessening landlords’ risks and costs and thus encourages them to build more.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
It is one way of lessening that stressful situation of putting out a game, especially for a smaller studio with fewer people to test it.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
By that first afternoon the soreness in my ribs was already lessening.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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