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Example sentences for: reducing

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When companies look at processes, they often try to improve them overall, by reducing the problems they cause (environmental contamination and worker exposure) and innovating production improvements.
This can explain the usefulness of drugs such as nalbuphine in reducing the side effects associated with the more potent opioid analgesics while not totally reversing the analgesic action of those ligands.
In another British liberal paper, the Independent , France was condemned for its initial refusal, subsequently reversed, to accept any refugees, with reference to the "similar attitude struck during the Bosnian war," and Germany was attacked for "drastically reducing the numbers it had been expected to take."
Lenny Bruce built a routine around the idea that repeating the word "nigger" over and over and over very, very fast could strip it of its cruel power, reducing it to an impotent sound.
Reducing mercury emissions will reduce mercury deposition in lakes and streams.