minified

past tense of minify

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for minified
Verb
  • Obviously, that’s a fair assumption if his ice time is meaningfully reduced, and the same goes for Draisaitl.
    Janson Duench, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The development comes as the global shipping industry contends with attacks around the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, higher energy prices, and sharply reduced traffic through some of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints.
    Joshua Hong, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In some cases, LinkedIn says views of content classified as AI spam have decreased by as much as 40 percent.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Travel data shows the average group size for trips has decreased since COVID-19 began.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The 11-day, summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises began Monday morning as scheduled and it wasn’t known which parts of the training were being downsized.
    Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Ada County’s largest roundabout was recently downsized after highway officials observed that certain types of crashes were on the rise.
    Rose Evans August 16, Idaho Statesman, 16 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Having a bank of clinical research at the ready means the list of treatments can be shortened, saving time and allowing future research to focus on what is most likely to be safe and effective.
    Mike McRae August 26, New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Porsche also shortened the final-drive ratio by 8 percent, trading a bit of top speed for harder acceleration.
    Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • And the Ku Klux Klan, though diminished from its earlier power, had not disappeared.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The value of a geographic component in roster management has diminished.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Finance and insurance, often abbreviated to F&I, often contributes an outsized share of gross profit compared with revenue.
    Robert Ferris, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Menu descriptions arrive as terse little trios—tuna, foie gras and shiso; cuttlefish, buckwheat and celtuce; turbot, lettuce and sake—but the cooking behind them is anything but abbreviated.
    Lela London, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The core issue is that this gas is normally compressed when injected at depth underground.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • However, nearly everything about the American approach to these concerns has lessened European confidence in Washington’s leadership and decision making.
    Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
  • It's become harder for NFL scouts to evaluate a prospect's hunger, but the fears of how players will react to making money have lessened.
    Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
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“Minified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minified. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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