diminution
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He wove elaborate textures out of canons, inversions, elongations and diminutions.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
There are very few people who have experienced this kind of early success in one field who would willingly submit to the demands and diminutions of advancement in a second.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
That will mean grave inconveniences in a jet-dependent age, but, carefully done, probably no serious diminutions in the standards that have made America's air-traffic control system the best in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wilson has won increasing renown as a satirist in the classic mode, a chronicler of lofty ideals and comic, mortal diminutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crimes and offences against property display extraordinary increases in the severest winter seasons, and diminutions in milder winters.
From Criminal Sociology by Ferri, Enrico
Vocabulary lists containing diminution
1984
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Music - Middle School
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George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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