lightening
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The data, from the workforce analytics and productivity-tracking software company ActivTrak, found that AI is making workloads more intense, not lightening them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
“If you think you’ve weathered the storm, we’re probably not through it all. If you can’t handle it, consider lightening up your positions,” he added.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026
Gupta, Smyth and Armlovich have all publicly opposed a rent freeze, unless some other action is taken to ease landlord expenses like lightening property taxes or insurance costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
The "silliness" of the formulation was "lightening the subject matter of this trial," he told Judge Cannon.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025
That day it seemed to Sam that his master had found some new strength, more than could be explained by the small lightening of the load that he had to carry.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
