Words similar to lessening

Example sentences for: lessening

How can you use “lessening” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

CIA officials also began pressing proposals to use their ties with the Northern Alliance to get American agents on the ground in Afghanistan for an extended period, setting up their own base for covert intelligence collection and activity in the Panjshir Valley and lessening reliance on foreign proxies."
The Goldwater-Nichols example is seen by some as having lessons applicable to lessening competition and increasing cooperation in other parts of the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence communities.
The center reportedly now serves more patients with eight fewer full-time staff members and anticipates that savings from the first year of the new outpatient program will be $600,000-with no lessening in the quality of patient care.
I agree with Jacob Weisberg's "Not Just Talk" that a national conversation on race that focused on ways of lessening de facto segregation would be a good thing.
The goo-goos would cut the number of presidential appointments by a third or more, lessening the burden on the Senate and allowing the president to pick better candidates.