reductive
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Belonging to a genre that tends toward the reductive, biopics can often be sorted into two categories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
That’s reductive — the cookie doesn’t crumble quite so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
This distinguishes it unfavorably from the traditional western, which, however reductive or politically wrongheaded, has always known how to keep an audience interested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The reductive strategy so nearly secured successive World Cup finals - but often proved soporific for supporters.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
I know only that I will never see him again, and that anything I can say or offer by way of his present life might well be taken as reductive and suspect.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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