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The Fed could sharply reduce its holdings of trillions of dollars in Treasurys, for one thing.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

At the same time, China has managed to reduce its oil imports during the war thanks to its vast oil inventories and massive rollout of renewables and electric vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The conflict with the US does not remove domestic pressures the country faces, but may reduce the immediate political pressure created by them.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Participation in the arts has been shown to reduce isolation, improve mental health and strengthen social bonds.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations.

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

Jaller-Makarewicz says this is the new normal until the EU reduces its gas consumption.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

This reduces sunlight entering the room and heating up floors, walls and furniture.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Flying at higher altitudes reduces the payload the drones can carry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

These are temporary periods in late summer when a state waives or reduces taxes on items such as school supplies, clothes or electronics to help families cut their back-to-school costs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

FA reduced the rise in intracellular calcium caused by potassium chloride.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

This April, Al-Doush's sentence was reduced on appeal to five years.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

"Cargo vessels are being forced to wait or sail with a reduced load," a spokesperson at the Bulgarian government's Danube agency told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

“We think the reduced affordability of standalone PDPs could result in a relative shift in enrollment toward Medicare Advantage plans over time,” Perlman said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

But the war in the Middle East was having an effect, reducing second-quarter growth by one percentage point, Guerra said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The ability to hold another person’s reality alongside one’s own, without reducing it or rewriting it, requires training, repetition and exposure.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Volcker succeeded in reducing inflation, Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts kick-started the economy, the stock market surged, and the personal computer, internet and smartphone changed everyone’s lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Research on overheating in homes shows that shading and ventilation can be important passive cooling strategies: reducing indoor heat without mechanical cooling.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson