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downscale

[daun-skayl] / ˈdaʊnˌskeɪl /


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The Atlantic describes the Brightline train as a luxurious ride for high rollers but paints a downscale cast to those who are run over by it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Invented by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler, Barbie was essentially knocked off from the Lilli doll, a German gag gift for men, based on a comic character in a downscale German tabloid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023

The red-walled first gallery emphasizes naturalistic black-and-white images of everyday life, mostly downscale.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

Midjourney, the one Jason Allen used, has a feature that allows you to upscale and downscale images.

From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2022

Her voice was the downscale wail of an oboe.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

The shrinking of device dimensionality, together with the downscaled junction region, render the device fast and energy efficient, resulting in high-performance digital and analog circuits.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2024

If the media company is going away — if it’s being downscaled to a production unit — there’s no need for a network president.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Because of this, they've downscaled their expectations of what politics can do.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2022

It is, however, a downscaled event — the guest list is about a third smaller than usual — and it’s very youth-focused.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021

He downscaled, but never abandoned, his efforts, which will be on view soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2016

David Price owns Southampton-based DCP Haulage, and said if things did not improve he would have to look at "parking up trucks" or "actually downscaling".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The World Food Program said the “pause” was driven by limited funding and the lack of agreement with the rebel authorities on downscaling the program to match the agency’s resources.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Why waste the money to only end up downscaling all of the extra work and not release the series in the Blu-ray format?

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022

It is actually where DeSo and Boeing take their simulations and interconnect them, with Nvidia’s machine learning upscaling, downscaling, translating, and then operating that simulation.

From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022

And last month, officials announced that they were downscaling from the arena to a much smaller convention center nearby.

From Fox News ● Jul. 17, 2020




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