diminish
Example Sentences
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When this happens, overall rebuilding efforts can be slowed as lots sit empty and the positive impacts of mass rebuilding — people coming back to neighborhoods, stores reopening — are diminished.
From Los Angeles Times
“The more that data brokers are not allowed to traffic on our personal information, the less of it there will be, and the more diminished the targets will be for third-party hackers,” Davisson said.
From Los Angeles Times
“But if the U.S. gets bogged down in a Latin American mess, then the appetite and capacity to intervene in other parts of the world will diminish,” she said.
If the sequel is anything less than stellar, it stands to diminish the greatness of the original film just by association, becoming a “remember when they tried that?” asterisk on a truly special movie.
From Salon
His story is well known but its horror does not diminish in the retelling.
From BBC
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