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Converting discarded PVC into a useful lubricant component could therefore reduce plastic waste while creating a valuable new product.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

The canal’s operator said this month it would reduce the maximum number of vessel transits from 36 to 32 by mid-September.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

It also added a new obligation: Americans now take a course in financial management after they file for bankruptcy to reduce the chance of future money troubles.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

Thanks to my neurologist and the NHS team looking after me, I've managed to regain my speech and reduce the amount of discomfort I'm in - but the pain can, and does, reappear.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

Quitting smoking reduces your risk of serious illnesses like heart disease, lung cancer, and stroke.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Unless China materially reduces purchases further, the additional impact on Iranian oil revenues could be relatively limited,” Leon adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

"Every personnel injured and every ambulance, vehicle, or piece of equipment damaged reduces the capacity to provide emergency health and humanitarian services, putting more lives at risk and making the epidemic harder to contain."

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

This reduces the amount of insulin required to regulate blood sugar.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar, because it reduces exceedingly complex histories to a few seemingly precise dates.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

And businesses have actually been receiving discounted charges from water companies that offer reduced rates the more water they use.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

By the end of the study, participants in every diet group had significantly reduced their body fat.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

Chilean copper producer Antofagasta reduced its production forecast after a freak storm deposited 5 million cubic meters of snow into its Los Pelambres mine in July, causing a stoppage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

"Recent data have reduced the immediate need for tighter policy, giving Warsh room to re-establish the Fed's inflation-fighting message without signalling imminent action," he wrote.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Both had been reduced to slumping metal skeletons the same way as the pickup truck had been.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Saturday, Newsom and lawmakers agreed on some measures aimed at reducing the costs of future utility-sparked wildfires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

These include keeping soil permanently covered, applying compost, using more diverse crop rotations and reducing the use of mineral fertilizers and pesticides.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

But they can also contain longer-term yields by reducing the threat of inflation and the possible need for much higher rates in the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

International donors and the government have committed tens of millions of euros to reducing pollution, including through the modernisation of one of the plants, which is expected to cut emissions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

He tried to find a happy medium, taking his insulin regularly, eating thick steaks, and reducing the extra weight off.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand