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Adults’ performance on a given task tends to diminish the more they outsource that job to technology, a phenomenon known as skill erosion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The impact seemed to diminish afterward, with yields rebounding at the end of last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

David Tamayo, head of Colombia's disaster relief agency, acknowledged that the "likelihood of finding survivors is going to diminish" after Thursday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I would never seek to diminish or dismiss any survivor's experience, or to make anyone feel that their pain was not heard or understood," they added.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

And even the idea of marriage would diminish Josef, spoil him; this is not his place in the scheme of things.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The "gender pace gap" diminishes to 0.25% in 100-mile races, according to a study of more than 20 years of amateur ultra-race data conducted by RunRepeat, in collaboration with the International Association of Ultrarunners,

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The concept of choosing time over money diminishes for mothers who feel unable to pause their careers, even when personal or caregiving demands intensify.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

As that plutonium supply steadily diminishes, each spacecraft loses about 4 watts of available power every year.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

When the temperature difference diminishes between the warmer western Pacific and the cooler eastern Pacific, the typical east-to-west trade winds decrease even further.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

As the space around me diminishes, the piles of “treasure” are ripped away, becoming debris spinning in the contracting circle of water.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

In some sense, it is a miracle that the party survived, though it has held on in a deeply diminished fashion.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Military planners worry the U.S. has rushed so many munitions to the Middle East that America’s ability to defend against potential threats from China and Russia has been diminished, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The rights holder typically airs specials promoting the show on affiliated TV stations and morning show segments, although those advantages have mattered less in recent years as traditional viewing has diminished.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

But that breakthrough represented the first effort in a long career spent exposing exploitative working conditions for women other journalists diminished or outright dismissed.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

Appetites already cloyed by the night’s heat were further diminished.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“You have to be aware that what we’re sitting on is not something with diminishing value, it’s something that actually has just exploded in value,” Almar says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The long-time rivals had been expected to finally settle their differences and face off in November, but the likelihood of that happening is diminishing as an agreement over the venue has yet to be reached.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

On top of that, Kedrosky is alarmed, he said, at the model convergence and diminishing returns of large language models’ performance.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

The US cattle herd has shrunk to its lowest level since the 1950s -- in part due to drought and international competition -- with the diminishing herd size pushing cattle prices higher.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

She dabs my forehead with antiseptic—they are so careful about germs here—and I feel the sting and prickle of the needle, diminishing by the second as the numbing agent does its work.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth