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Main Entry:
de·crease
[
v.
dih-
krees
;
n.
dee
-krees
,
dih-
krees
]
/
v.
dɪˈkris
;
n.
ˈdi
kris
,
dɪˈkris
/
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Main Entry:
decrease
Part of Speech:
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Example Sentences
Specifically, check to see if a
decrease
in displayed bars corresponds with an actual drop in call quality.
If you really want to make it so that anybody can go into space, you have to increase the safety and
decrease
the cost.
Instead, populations increase and
decrease
over time.
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Specifically, check to see if a
decrease
in displayed bars corresponds with an actual drop in call quality.
If you really want to make it so that anybody can go into space, you have to increase the safety and
decrease
the cost.
Instead, populations increase and
decrease
over time.
There has been a
decrease
in reports, but why that
decrease
has occurred is not clear.
Some areas have even experienced a temperature
decrease
.
The fact of the matter is that improvements can be made to
decrease
spending and improve all those other conditions as well.
Brain scans show that scratching does indeed work to
decrease
unpleasantness.
But there the squid invasion has led to a
decrease
in the population of commercially valuable hake fish.
If you want to improve the perception of security, you have to
decrease
common crimes, not the already-rare and dramatic crimes.
Either of these schemes should
decrease
the use of fossil fuels and increase the use of alternatives.
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