diminishment

Example Sentences

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Anthropic is at the bleeding edge of AI and its diminishment would set back American leadership in an industry critical to economic and strategic dominance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

The rapid diminishment in quality of life described by residents represents another setback in city leaders’ attempts to provide long-term stability to one of the region’s largest portfolios of homeless housing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

In it, she traces the roots of women’s tendency to apologize for their ailing or unruly bodies to centuries of diminishment by the medical establishment.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024

Founding-era dictionaries define abridging as a reduction or diminishment.

From Slate • Oct. 13, 2023

When the powerful are made weak, when they are revealed to be human, to have hearts, their diminishment is nothing short of terrifying.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo