reduce
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After the 2025 fires in southern California even pols like Mr. Newsom at least pretended to acknowledge the need to manage the Golden State’s landscape aggressively to reduce fire risk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“These downstream consequences can reduce the financial resources available for food,” the paper said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Pierluigi Collina, the head of referees, is determined to speed up the matches and to reduce the potential for match-changing mistakes.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Likewise, for gamers, a VPN can help reduce lag by connecting to servers in other regions, resulting in smoother gameplay.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
When improvements in typewriters eliminated the problem of jamming, trials in 1932 with an efficiently laid-out keyboard showed that it would let us double our typing speed and reduce our typing effort by 95 percent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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