decrease
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Instead, its activity can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged depending on the type of cell and a person's sex.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
There, despite a five percent decrease in cultivated areas production is set to come in up 10 percent on 2025, albeit still 11 percent below the 2021-2025 average.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Analysts are looking for adjusted earnings of $3 a share on sales of $6.52 billion, marking a 1.5% decrease from last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Enrollment declined from 440,365 to 369,830 students, a decrease of about16%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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If the laser begins to drift away from that frequency, the amount of light absorbed by the nuclei decreases.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Yet there is growing evidence that skepticism actually decreases when people see a chain of thought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The bill also gives some legal protection for school districts against financial penalties if their arts funding decreases as a result of factors beyond their control, such as the expiration of a grant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
LAHSA’s latest homeless count found that homelessness went up in L.A. this year after two years of decreases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
In bad times puberty is late and fertility decreases.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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In skin cells from male participants, recycling activity decreased as age increased.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
When Menin activity decreased, this pathway became less active, reducing the amount of D-serine available to the brain.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
“Their osteoporosis has worsened, and they’ve ended up suffering compression fractures in their back as a result of the decreased density of their bones.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Truck supply has decreased due to safety enforcement, said Shelley Simpson, CEO of J.B.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Is it possible that violent crime has decreased because so many people are being locked up?
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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The state ballot measures aim to fix the housing crisis in various ways, from amending regulations so home-building is easier, to decreasing the ongoing cost of homeownership by cutting taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Keynes believed that during high unemployment, the government should increase aggregate demand for goods and services by temporarily increasing government spending or temporarily decreasing taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The feed industry has emphasized that it is decreasing its reliance on fishmeal and fish oil — and especially the use of whole fish or fish parts that can be eaten by people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Penguins with narrower diets, including Emperors and Adélies, are decreasing in number in some regions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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