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reduction

[ri-duhk-shuhn] / rɪˈdʌk ʃən /


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However, now there’s growing concern that any reduction to long-dated supply might not arrive for a quarter or two, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Properties that needed a price reduction were half as likely to find a buyer within the normal three-month timeframe, according to Richard Donnell, executive director of research at Rightmove.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Treatment with estradiol, a form of estrogen, reversed the reduction in stem cell proliferation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

“Wherever we see a redesign, we see reduction or total elimination of fatalities,” said Jessica Wineberg, coordinator of Milwaukee’s Vision Zero program, a traffic-safety plan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

The alternatives, he says, will be the obtaining of professional status, or, by 1971, reduction to the role of spectacle-sellers.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Already, since July, there have been reductions in cash transfers provided to some half a million people, meaning they have less money to buy food in local markets.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Such reductions could effectively dry up the Central Arizona Project.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

If you can no longer work, you may qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance, which pays your full retirement age benefit without reductions that come from claiming early.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Also on metals, he has objected to reductions in tariffs on so-called derivative products—finished products made of steel and aluminum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“There are no discounts for youth or winsome faces—and no sympathy reductions for badly cut fringes.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell


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