lessening

Example Sentences

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It argues the deal did not, therefore, meet the threshold of a "substantial lessoning of competition" needed for the CMA to block it.

From Reuters • Dec. 23, 2021

He said it half in defiance of the trail's fierce lessoning; but it was truer than he knew.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

I grouped them all in one swift eye-sweep, and having listed them, strove to read some lessoning of my part in my dear lady's face.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis

This, my last day at Windsor, was filled with nothing but packing, leave-taking, bills-paying, and lessoning to Mlle.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny

That the scheme worked on the whole well and justly was in great measure due to Symonds, whose zealous energy, though the Battalion was lessoning daily, never flagged.

From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Rose, Geoffrey Keith