reductive
Example Sentences
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The reductive strategy so nearly secured successive World Cup finals - but often proved soporific for supporters.
From BBC
The study’s approach is highly reductive, and the posted paper doesn’t offer a full list of cases and ratings.
Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”
At the risk of being reductive, the problem is that these markets each want different things from Audi.
But Fabbro’s wistful salute to bygone traditions has significant limitations, especially noticeable in the reductive design of his diametrically opposed main characters.
From Los Angeles Times
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