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Example sentences for: downsized

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Roseanne Conner became a genuine populist icon, an anti-June Cleaver for a downsized era.
Hyde yesterday also announced his revised plans for substantially downsized impeachment hearings.
Mixed reviews for a British "working class comedy" about Yorkshire coal miners downsized by Thatcherism, and about their brass band.
And the great majority of downsized workers do find new jobs.
On the positive side, "Faludi's reportorial and literary skills unfold with a breathtaking confidence and beauty" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). More often, though, critics call the book "didactic and highly simplistic" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). Judith Shulevitz finds a flaw at the center of Faludi's thesis: She "assumes something that's no longer true: that America is in the throes of downsizing and loss"; and her focus on the marginalized and downsized distorts her view: "she should have said she was talking about class; she claimed to be talking about gender" (the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here to listen to an interview with Faludi.)