minimize
Example Sentences
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During the season, most coaches prefer that their passers not take hits away from games, to minimize the risk of injury.
This process targets tumor tissue while minimizing harm to nearby healthy cells.
From Science Daily
He is careful not to risk lifting more than he can handle, minimizing bodily wear-and-tear that might compromise his ability to do the job.
Their responses can subtly highlight certain viewpoints while minimizing others, often without users realizing it.
From Salon
Moreover, to minimize their losses, manufacturers focused on large, luxurious EVs whose life-cycle emissions were virtually guaranteed to be greater than the cars they were supposedly displacing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
