as in to dismiss
to express scornfully one's low opinion of
sore losers trying to minimize the other team's victory
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Recent Examples of minimize
Use plants well within your hardiness zone to minimize the risk of losing a full-grown hedge to atypical freezes.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
In this case, following a low-FODMAP diet, which cuts out certain carbs that tend to create more gas and fluid in your GI tract, can minimize pressure on your intestines and the painful bloaty feeling that comes with it.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Connecticut residents are being warned to take precautions to help minimize the likelihood of a fire, as spring fire season is underway and numerous wildfires have occurred, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2025
But the most effective ways to protect and preserve reefs is to minimize humans’ effects by curtailing pollution that washes into the ocean from land, ending overfishing and curbing the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
In this case, following a low-FODMAP diet, which cuts out certain carbs that tend to create more gas and fluid in your GI tract, can minimize pressure on your intestines and the painful bloaty feeling that comes with it.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Connecticut residents are being warned to take precautions to help minimize the likelihood of a fire, as spring fire season is underway and numerous wildfires have occurred, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2025
But the most effective ways to protect and preserve reefs is to minimize humans’ effects by curtailing pollution that washes into the ocean from land, ending overfishing and curbing the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
—Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for minimize
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“Minimize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimize. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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