| 单词 | reduce |
| 例句 | Smoke filled the caverns between buildings and reduced lateral visibility to a few blocks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Turning his attention to the Ares 3 flight surgeon, Teddy asked, "Dr. Keller, can we reduce Watney's food intake to make the rations last longer?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Accessorized with the right mix of confidence and haughtiness, it reduces my audience to a world of leering carpetbaggers and gasping Aunt Pittypats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Our food ration has been steadily reduced to the point that the cooks are now only getting a small twelve-ounce can of rice for every ten people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They explained that by their studies of the past three months the pigs had succeeded in reducing the principles of Animalism to Seven Commandments. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After a few months Blanca realized that she could not hold him prisoner indefinitely and gave up her plans to reduce his spirit in order to make him her permanent lover. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The soles, made from rubber tire treads, had already been reduced to shreds held together with a little leather and a great deal of hope. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Diminished as she already was, my news reduced her even more. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It reduced the island’s cat population by at least two-thirds. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As argued above, an increase in the number of police, regardless of new strategies, has been proven to reduce crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But I can’t have Miss Duncan or any of the other instructors finding out about what I do with Jackson on the side, so this is what I’m reduced to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Internal Revenue Service is able to collect Bobby’s back taxes and fines, the multimillion-dollar “purse” the competitors are vying for will have been seriously reduced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense—all this reduced us to silence. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The season came round, and off they went to the meet in splendid armour which reduced the risk of injury to a foxhunter’s minimum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Because harsh sentencing is a major cause of the prison explosion, one might reasonably assume that substantially reducing the length of prison sentences would effectively dismantle this new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z An equivalent loss today would reduce the population of New York City to 56,000, not enough to fill Yankee Stadium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s not clear that much of value is learned by reducing Chris McCandless’s strange spiritual quest to a list of pat psychological disorders. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1955, Paramount would be desperate to exit the field; Ernest, feeling duty-bound to help his financial partner reduce its exposure to losses, went on the road to help Paramount find a buyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To help aspiring riders establish themselves in the sport, a horse ridden by a bug boy had his impost reduced by five pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of day when mundane tasks were needed to reduce the building tension. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As you reduce the distance between the points, the guess gets closer to the tangent line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I am unable to discern him clearly because the bright morning sunlight has for the moment reduced him to a silhouette. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z What do you say when your best friend has lost his mojo because you tried to reduce him to a paranoid bundle of nerves terrified of going into anaphylactic shock? Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Despite her air of frivolity, she was near the top of her class—officially, Shaker did not rank its students, to reduce competitive feelings, but she knew she was somewhere in the top twenty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The 30,000 who retreated from Petersburg just three days ago have been reduced by half. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t look like she intended to stop until she had reduced the whole world to dust. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Despite a good deal of opinion to the contrary, an item whose price has been increased by 50 percent and then reduced by 50 percent has had a net reduction in price of 25 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I climbed out of the DeLorean I cast a Shrink spell on it, instantly reducing it to the size of a Matchbox car. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It hurt her to see him reduced to this. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Bobby claimed that his system would actually reduce the number of draws, that it would produce games in which the players would take more chances, trying to achieve wins rather than half points. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The sole Native Americans able to resist European conquest for many centuries were those tribes that reduced the military disparity by acquiring and mastering both horses and guns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bliss announced that the president wanted to reduce the number of doctors around him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in face of her danger. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Though Frenchy’s concepts of reducing were in some cases medieval, they were generally safer than those the jockeys dreamed up on their own, so Woolf probably benefited as a result. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Seaborg’s microchemists used hydrofluoric acid to reduce a solution made from the bombardment products and watched a minuscule quantity of pinkish material precipitate out: this was pure plutonium-239. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this particular stream, game fish had been reduced by 80 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Again, we don’t have definitive data, but it could be reduced to just a couple of years or maybe even less.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Having wiped out these leaders, and having reduced their partisans to his allies, the Duke had laid very good foundations for his power, possessing all of the Romagna along with the Duchy of Urbino. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They gave her cool drinks of barley water and apple water to reduce the fever, and red wine with laudanum to help her rest. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In the months that Cora had worked for the family, the mother’s bad days had markedly reduced in number. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It exposed them to lethal levels of radiation, but reduced Japan’s nuclear contamination tenfold. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sally asked so many garrulous, probative questions that at ten this morning I was reduced to answering, ‘I am sufficiently well, madam.’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z To forestall such a tragedy, I wrapped them in blankets to keep them from rubbing against the metal hull of the lifeboat, and I moved them as little as possible to reduce wear and tear. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His primary goal was to reduce the overlap Reuters payroll, while preserving as many good journalism jobs as possible. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z They have to lift the blubber sheets on hooks and feed it into the ‘try-works,’ where the blubber, it’s all reduced with, you know, fire and heat. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Payne has tried all kinds of techniques to reduce this bias. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We were, a couple of times, reduced to eating from dumps and garbage cans. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He had been assigned just 109 pounds, and his jockey, Wayne Wright, had reduced himself half to death to make weight. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he reduced his progress to the rhythm of his boots—he walked across the land until he came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The advent of mechanized fishing in the 1920s drastically reduced the number of cod from the Gulf of Maine to the Grand Banks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nothing will convince him that his fortunes might not suddenly reverse, reducing him to a diet of fingernail clippings or soups made from fallen leaves and seasoned with flashlight batteries. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z How they managed to reduce sentences in the Pittman case, which was outside their jurisdiction in another county, was another anomaly. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some ten feet in front of them stood a short, plump man wearing enormously thick glasses that reduced his eyes to molelike specks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The phrase on the aspir- ational level adds nothing to aspire, nor is a prejudice reduction model any more sophisticated than reducing prejudice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Hellenistic rulers, it is said, trivialized Greek civic life by reducing it to pompous pageantry and contests over who could best flatter the king. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Later: the Morning of 16 May.—God preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “We recommended that fifth grade would be a good year for Amelia to reduce her reliance on the headphones.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z A dress whose price has been “slashed” 40 percent and then another 40 percent has been reduced in price by 64 percent, not 80 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The psychologist Walter Mischel argues that the human mind has a kind of “reducing valve” that “creates and maintains the perception of continuity even in the face of perpetual observed changes in actual behavior.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Fat Cheeks was reduced to lip-smacking foolishness when he attempted to entertain one. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At Berkeley, that institution which symbolizes middle-class opportunity, students complained about the impersonal life on the campus—they were being reduced to IBM numbers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered from my high-school course that alcohol reduces fever; I found a half bottle of rubbing alcohol in the upstairs medicine closet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But instead of simply increasing the African quota, the authorities reduced the amount of sugar that Coloured and Indian prisoners received by half a spoonful, while adding that amount for African prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain and sea spray stung my eyes, reducing everything to a blur, but as the lightning flashed, it lit—for a second—something jutting out of the sea. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Does merely increasing the number of police, however, reduce crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z How was it possible that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this—smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Only rarely had she reduced him with an expression of haughty pouting. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Some reduce it to “Burp” and others do not answer at all. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I suppose every mother is reduced to idiocy when describing her firstborn, but, oh, he is a beauty—large and dark like his father, but with the bright blue eyes of the Bradshaws. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke with a quiet fury, her anger reducing to a hard crust you’d need a hammer to chip away. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Even therapeutic measures have the important result not only of curing the patient but of reducing the foci of infection. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Yet we have certainly not reduced these subjects to the status of solved problems: we have, as yet, had little success in predicting human behavior from mathematical equations! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the arms were curved, they turned the earth away from the blade, which both reduced friction and more effectively plowed the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the time it reaches the end, the corn is reduced to simple molecules, mostly sugars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He initially devised 200 syllabic signs and gradually reduced them to 85, most of them for combinations of one consonant and one vowel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first law says that you can’t create energy and the third that you can’t reduce temperatures to absolute zero; there will always be some residual warmth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Although Dad made his living by redesigning complicated machinery, so as to reduce the number of human motions required to operate it, he never really understood the mechanical intricacies of our automobile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismissing the impact of disease, in her view, is simply a way to reduce the original population of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When improvements in typewriters eliminated the problem of jamming, trials in 1932 with an efficiently laid-out keyboard showed that it would let us double our typing speed and reduce our typing effort by 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was quiet, subdued, reduced—a banished man living off his wits in a foreign land. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z To have even a hope of achieving this, the railroads would have to reduce their fares, and Frank Millet would have to intensify his efforts to attract people from all corners of the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The reformers, Gold writes: strove for ways to reduce time spent studying, because long periods of respite could save the mind from injury. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Its inhabitants were reduced to fabricating adzes out of giant clamshells. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At his doctor’s suggestion, Miele enrolled in a three- month monitored exercise program for heart disease patients, called cardiac rehab, which has been shown to reduce the mortality rate among heart patients by 20 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “And if Mrs. Malvolio and Mr. Huxley bulldoze the building, if they reduce it to rubble and crush the cave entrance, we may never be able to find it.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “She sent me to fetch those Arabica beans! Me, the hero of Trenton and Germantown reduced to a simple errand boy. What has the world come to?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cyclopes’ siege tower shot glowing green cannonballs into the city, blasting craters in the forum, reducing houses to ruins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “You see, now that Mr. Burton has purchased that section of land, it reduces the amount of land that has back taxes due. And actually, now Mr. Burton owes an amount in back taxes.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He lit another cigarette to curb his hunger and tried to reduce his task to the basics: you walked across the land until you came to the sea. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The back corner of the house had been reduced to a slumped and smoking ruin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He didn’t want the big guy reduced to tears, especially in front of Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A few made matters worse by offering more: an unusually large starting salary; a reduced teaching schedule; free university housing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It will be good to reduce the weight in your pack,” she pointed out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Once every Cyclops within fifty yards had been reduced to ashes, Frank landed in front of his troops and transformed into a human. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Within minutes, the karpoi had been reduced to piles of seeds and various breakfast cereals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Although roll call was held each morning, the daily death toll from typhus and starvation was quickly reducing the prisoner population. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The broad bottom of each pyramid spread the load and reduced settlement; the narrow top supported load-bearing columns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In 1782 the governor of North Carolina sent five hundred mounted rangers to retaliate, with orders to “chastise that nation and reduce them to obedience.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Age had thickened her husband, thinned his hair, and reduced the numerology by which Bull himself measured his fitness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And a nogas regulation would have the corollary benefit of automatically reducing trash and crowding because considerably fewer people would attempt Everest if they knew supplemental oxygen was not an option. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But the old woman had lied and now his crossroad was reduced to one destination, a slow death in Georgia. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His soldiers reduced the forest to a heap of kindling. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three reached what they believed to be the summit at 4:00 p.m., by which time the clouds had become so thick that visibility was reduced to no more than 100 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Bong reduced to touch and sound, he found himself in better sympathy with these, and could go quietly and quick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the liver spots and the purplish swags under his eyes, he at last appeared the cruelly handsome plutocrat, though somewhat reduced. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They could not imagine the world as the size of a piece of paper spread over a blackboard, in which whole armies were reduced to the head of a pin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But to believe that dissecting the tragic events of 1996 in minute detail will actually reduce the future death rate in any meaningful way is wishful thinking. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z So if you have only four eggs, reduce all the other ingredients in the recipe by half. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowds packed in, surrounding the seated Texans and reducing them to four disembodied voices. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All that Owen had been reduced to a small container of ashes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was shortly after the measles epidemic that Dad started applying motion study to surgery to try to reduce the time required for certain operations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They did so by renouncing war, and they reduced potential conflicts from overpopulation by castrating some male infants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine what these vandals have reduced us to. Pamela and I sometimes sleep here when they bomb us,” Mrs. Ezeka said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Should we try to change society by reducing prejudice, that is, by getting people to like one another? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then, in the space of a night and a day, this was all reduced to ashes. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Dust storms reduce the effectiveness of solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If he cut straight across those instead of following the highway, he could save a lot of time, plus reduce the risk of being caught. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Severe reducing was thought to be the culprit behind an epidemic of fatal lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, among jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It remains the law in Alabama, where judges almost exclusively use this power to turn life sentences into death sentences, although they're also authorized to reduce death verdicts to life if they so choose. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her hair was cut short, higher at the front and gradually reducing in an arch until it got to the back of her head, where there was little hair. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Thus, in principle, belief in magic ought to decline with improvements in technology, particularly medicine, and the beginnings of insurance policies and other methods of reducing the impact of unforeseen disasters. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They pledged to revamp their menus, cutting calories, reducing sodium, and offering healthier options for kids’ meals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In reduced circumstances you have to believe all kinds of things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z With the reduced load of only supporting one human instead of six, a 14 percent energy production loss is irrelevant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no money- back guarantee that a cream can reduce cellulite. guerrilla. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And what could have reduced him—of all rabbits—to this state? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind’s eye I saw reduced to soot all those wonderful books, which had revealed to me other ways of living, which had sustained me in a world of degradation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving his body behind reduces weight for the MAV on the trip back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mobutu is capable of embarrassment at all, there’s a chance his sentence could be reduced from life to five years, or less. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In June 2000, the press rushed to hail a study supposedly showing that Minnesota’s welfare-to-work program had sharply reduced poverty and was, as Time magazine put it, a “winner.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The 122nd Air Group’s limited military career so far hadn’t done a thing to reduce that thirst for battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Once the shadow reduces to a quarter crescent, it hangs there, motionless. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Hoping to focus the horse’s mind on his job and reduce the distractions of the rail, Smith fitted Seabiscuit with a set of blinkers that restricted his vision to the track straight ahead of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If a spat with Delly can reduce him to arguing with himself, he’s got no business learning how to assemble a gun. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I briefly considered only bringing one tank of hydrazine in at a time to reduce risk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor raised a baton whose ignitable ends had been reduced to stubs. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If there is more population growth than the food supply can accommodate, something must and will happen to reduce the population. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was reduced in all his parts, freeze-dried. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Thus the radiation at high frequencies would be reduced, and so the rate at which the body lost energy would be finite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened the stove door and poked the black sheets until they were reduced to powder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Even this reduced, unintended message will trigger recognition if the subject is important, relevant, or highly probable.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Stammerers act invisible to reduce the chances of being made to say something we can't. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was life reduced to a set of rules, an existential life, a life clarified by the eyes of fathers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had successfully reduced him to a pulp, and Catherine knew exactly when the time had come, she began to steal from him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything in his life reduced to a series of qualifying statements—could have done this, would have done that, might have been this, should have been that. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed him how to set up his graphs, how to utilize the tables in his textbook, and how to reduce experimental findings to mathematical formulas. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That reduces the stress on the animals from too much heat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As coveted as his shells were, Pocock had begun to find himself struggling to stay in business, reduced to writing plaintive letters to coaches around the country, pleading for orders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Brain-numbing shock, the kind that reduced my train of thought to an inching crawl, was an understatement. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z That giddy rush of keeping up with one another, of zooming through the school, reducing everything that’s not us into an inconsequential blur. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z By using seventy community health workers, Zanmi Lasante had vaccinated all the children in the area and greatly reduced local malnutrition and infant mortality. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He came to believe that that one terrible day of reducing may have triggered the onset of the crippling disease. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A national recession was under way, steel orders were reduced, and Coalwood was producing more coal than the steel company needed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some malaria mosquitoes have a habit that so reduces their exposure to DDT as to make them virtually immune. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The five dollars his father had advanced reduced Jody to peonage for the whole late spring and summer. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The air scorched my lungs, reducing my breath to frantic wheezing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z That she wanted to get my death sentence reduced. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He tried to find a happy medium, taking his insulin regularly, eating thick steaks, and reducing the extra weight off. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Pollard, surely overwrought from the reducing, lost control. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing lost to the river was Shay’s note, reduced to a soggy wad of paper in her pocket. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I said to Octavian, We are a little reduced in our Circs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In reduced circumstances the desire to live attaches itself to strange objects. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indigenous peoples’ land base has also been drastically reduced since first contact with Europeans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Constant tribal warfare could have reduced the population. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The grove had been sprayed with parathion some two and a half weeks earlier; the residues that reduced them to retching, half-blind, semiconscious misery were sixteen to nineteen days old. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced visibility to the distance of a single block, especially in winter, when coal furnaces were in full roar. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The great Caltech physicist Richard Feynman once observed that if you had to reduce scientific history to one important statement it would be "All things are made of atoms." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By day, my grandmother expertly managed a thriving Bible bookstore on the Far South Side, but in her off-hours with Dandy she was reduced to a meekness I found perplexing, even as a young girl. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So Wilson was reduced to a man "deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplest form. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When the food ration is reduced, we supplement it by buying food from the Thai market at the edge of the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The old Tijuana track was reduced to a squatter’s haven, and Pollard and Woolf set up shop across town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And the American and Soviet police had publicly stated that Mercerism reduced crime by making citizens more concerned about the plight of their neighbors. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Tally grasped his hand, wondering what it was like to see your childhood home reduced to a smoking ruin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He sat in the back with her on the bench opposite, his outfit reduced to the wagon and the two skinny horses that pulled it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the principal agents of decay, reducing plant and animal residues to their component minerals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z However, these estimates are for human beings reduced to our simplest possible components. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullet lodged in his spinal column reduced him to his bed for the rest of his life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In no time at all Remirro reduced the territory to a peaceful and united state, and in so doing, the Duke greatly increased his prestige. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink of extinction, reducing the global population to no more than a few thousand individuals. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The original Native American population has been reduced by a debated large percentage: estimates for North America range up to 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea was to reduce the area of the mainsail so it wouldn’t catch so much wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z David Braman’s ethnographic research shows that mass incarceration, far from reducing the stigma associated with criminality, actually creates a deep silence in communities of color, one rooted in shame. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Trip glanced toward the bedroom, where through the open door he could see Pearl’s bed, stripped of its sheets and blankets, reduced now to a bare mattress and frame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One hundred twenty-three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and smoke. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Davos watched the hand of the Stranger writhe and curl as the fingers blackened and fell away one by one, reduced to so much glowing charcoal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But his thirst was gone and die water seemed to reduce the pain in his head as well—although the sunburn still cooked his face. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a very fat and lively puppy when she was struck down, but five days of fever reduced her to a little skin-covered skeleton. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rush next began experimenting with the amount of blood he would remove from the body in an effort to reduce inflammation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Eventually Job is reduced to nothing but raw suffering. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Thankfully, they had reduced themselves to human size, so they didn’t accidentally trample partygoers under their feet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But his reducing, combined with the blunt-instrument character of diabetes treatment in the 1930s, made controlling his blood sugar extremely difficult. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Rations among the Army were reduced to salt-pork, now rank with flies and greening. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In her inventory of loss people were not reduced to sums but multiplied by their kindnesses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He devised a strategy that he believed would not only allay suspicions but also reduce the costs of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I could cut off an arm and eat it, gaining me valuable calories and reducing my overall caloric need. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When the flames had reduced to coals, he placed a bent coat hanger over the top as a grill and set a pan on to heat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the important mammal species hunted for meat, the gazelle, originally lived in huge herds but was overexploited by the growing human population and reduced to low numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I think it had a tiger lily on it, but now it’s been reduced to crumbs in my fist. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Our neighbors seemed fairly indifferent to our reduced circumstances, as they were occupied with their own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These and many other birds were sharply reduced elsewhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hill jumped on every chance to bend the ear of the industrialists, explaining why promotion of blacks to foremen would reduce conflict and increase efficiency. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “That would reduce it to labor, and they will not labor if they can help it. Nor will I.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps Lawson was lying in the hopes that prosecutors would reduce his jail time, in exchange for his testimony. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One of Frenchy’s cardinal rules of reducing was to “keep the contents of the bowels moving down and out steadily and regularly.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The blaze goes out of control, spreading to buildings onshore and thence to the Library, where it reduces a large number of scrolls to ashes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what to say,” she mumbled, her usually clear, strong voice reduced to almost a whisper. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In fact, in some jurisdictions, individuals may “choose” to go to jail as a way to reduce their debt burdens, a practice that has been challenged as unconstitutional. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane to reduce the impact. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The result of the moving picture was that the surgeons involved managed to reduce their ether time by fifteen per cent. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’ll have to take steroids to reduce the swelling in his brain and antiseizure medications. And I’d recommend palliative radiation. Do you know what that means?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Mac would then summarize the news and reduce it to a single small piece of paper, which would circulate among us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On many study areas aquatic insects and other stream-bottom fauna were reduced to a tenth of their normal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But as a result, the big Wall Street investment firms have had to sharply reduce the cost of their market research, all of which has to be paid for now by their brokerage departments alone. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I had sacrificed energy to recruit writers who subscribed to a revolutionary point of view, and now my feelings fought against the waste and meaninglessness to which my efforts were being reduced. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Gay advanced the spark and reduced the gas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The flame that issues from its nostrils is a brilliant blue and can reduce timber and bone to ash in a matter of seconds. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that he did as Deputy Mayor was to reduce the Shirriffs to their proper functions and numbers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The warmth in her voice somehow reduced my fears of her; her eyes shone with the same gentleness of the Catholic sisters at the clinic. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When Owen suggested that Deysel had been reduced to “serving as a token black woman to give the team a spurious South Africanism,” Woodall threatened to kill both Owen and his wife. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Even reduced to ten names each, the recitation lasted for almost two hours. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t failed that IQ test I wouldn’t be reduced to this ignominious task with its attendant emotional by-products. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There was another demographic change, however, unforeseen and long-gestating, that did drastically reduce crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It distances the entire thing, reduces it to a farce or prank, in which I have no involvement aside from mockery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If Grandmother raised the heat off their gambling parlors, or said the word that reduced the bail of a friend waiting in jail, they knew what would be expected of them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to afford the suit's matching top, she's been reduced to waddling the streets much like two women fused together in some sort of cruel experiment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I stand in the shower for ages, gradually' reducing the water temperature, making it cooler and cooler until it’s properly cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I am sure it was an apprehension of this sort, penetrating even the thick haze created by alcohol, which reduced my father's passengers into a shamed silence that Sunday afternoon many years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Patiently and unobtrusively Atticus had taught him everything Henry knew about his craft, but Henry sometimes wondered if he would be as old as Atticus before he reduced law to his possession. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You just need to practice,” said Hermione, who had approached them noiselessly from behind and had stood watching anxiously as Harry tried to enlarge and reduce the spider. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “How much mercury would it take to reduce two gills of white sulfur?” he asked pompously, as if I’d already given the wrong answer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kekrops looked around at his army, now reduced to six guys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Beyond these important, admirable goals, it also had a more immediate purpose: it would undoubtedly reduce the school’s notoriously high failure rate, which had become an embarrassment to the school and to the school board. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This will greatly reduce its cost and should encourage its more extensive use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Soon the number of people who could grasp relativity had been reduced even further in the popular imagination–and the scientific establishment, it must be said, did little to disturb the myth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I enjoyed keeping my legal skills sharp, and in a few cases verdicts were overturned and sentences reduced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rice fields of eastern Texas, this practice has seriously reduced the populations of the fulvous tree duck, a tawny-colored, gooselike duck of the Gulf Coast. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The irksome security provisions of May-Johnson were liberalized, with penalties reduced to maximum fines of $20,000 and prison terms of up to five years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Soon our camp population is reduced to forty girls, ranging in age from ten to thirteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Indenting the plane’s body inward along that joint reduced the drag dramatically and resulted in an increase of as much as 25 percent in the planes speed for the same level of power. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grams to twenty at the end of the present week. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The program reduces pollution and conserves natural resources. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If the blade entered the water at any angle other than ninety degrees, the amount of power generated by the subsequent stroke would be compromised and the efficiency of the whole boat reduced. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That was when the government was encouraging families to eat at neighborhood canteens to reduce housework and allow women to work outside the family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He can paint in oil, since his expenses are reduced by living at home, but he also keeps drawing—in pencil, black chalk, and colored ink—and uses watercolor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All this would happen in seconds, a year of training reduced to a single, desperate moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Even Cole’s lawyer spoke in terms of a reduced jail term for good behavior. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The first thing I did was write the judge and ask him to reduce my sentence to time served. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z In an attempt to reduce confusion, all dates in this book are ordinary calendar dates—that is, radiocarbon dates corrected by the most recent calibration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dany had no wish to reduce King's Landing to a blackened ruin full of unquiet ghosts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It’s a little too sweet. It would be nicer if you reduced the sugar in it.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He argued that this would drastically reduce cervical cancer deaths, but his critics called it extreme and unnecessary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Worst, perhaps, in the long run, the exuberant spread of the Green Revolution has pushed many traditional cultivars toward extinction, which in turn reduces the genetic diversity of crops. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He no longer muttered “nation of intractable sycophancy” when the nightly news started on NTA, no longer held long monologues about how Babangida’s government had reduced Nigerians to imprudent idiots, no longer teased her mother. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If the segregation laws were designed to reduce friction by keeping the races apart, in practice they had the opposite effect. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She was young and enraptured, her joy infectious, especially to Dr. Cigrand, the dentist, who saw so little joy from day to day as he reduced grown men of proven courage to tears. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That’s what I thought,” he said, and cut another and another, reducing the massive thing to a pile of fragments in less than a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z This is what we have been reduced to. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Picked-on kids act invisible to reduce the chances of being noticed and picked on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was talk now among the directors of seeking a $10 million appropriation from Congress, but the only immediate solution was to reduce expenditures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Eventually, it sealed the gaps around the hole and reduced the leak to something the suit could counteract. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My aim is to reduce her visions, not to make them more intense. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Racism—the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them— inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The aged fascist would conduct witch-hunt after witch-hunt until the formerly intact Ignatius J. Reilly was reduced to a fragmented and mumbling vegetable. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard had sacked the widow’s house and reduced it to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It probably wouldn't do much good, but it was worth trying, if only to reduce Belet's pain. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I watched, fascinated, as he disemboweled the whole row of dummies, hacking off limbs and basically reducing them to a pile of straw and armor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Time and again Pocock explained that he was desperate for business but could not reduce prices: “No one who has ordered a boat this year has asked for it. They know they are worth it.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was like flying in a twilight which had reduced everything to shades of the same colour, and, as in the twilight, there was a considerable amount of gloom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “By reducing its half-life, you will be able to occupy the planet far sooner,” I go on, hoping she won’t be able to resist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The circumstances have been reduced; for those of us who still have circumstances. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As a sort of test, he had agreed to set up a cage with a few pairs of the rodents, imitating on a reduced scale the enterprise under consideration. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Huygens brothers found a way to reduce chromatic aberration considerably by using a combination of two thin lenses in the eyepiece of a telescope, instead of one fat lens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z This system is better designed to create crime, and a perpetual class of people labeled criminals, rather than to eliminate crime or reduce the number of people under the system’s control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Another family with eight children was reduced to living on crusts of bread for nearly a week. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her dear soul, the daring companion of her heart, to be cut away and reduced to a little trotting pet? The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A flow of negative energy into the black hole therefore reduces its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from the mayor, the committee was made up of twenty-six individuals, though illness and death soon reduced their numbers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “He was letting you break your icons one by one. He was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You poor dears, one guardian carried off in the night, the other reduced to poultry.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z His sentence was later commuted to life in prison and then reduced to fourteen years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z While Sumerian and Mesoamerican languages bear no special relation to each other among the world’s languages, both raised similar basic issues in reducing them to writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He suffered a good deal and was reduced to tearing at the stems of the long grasses for moisture. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She trying to get her husband to reduce. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z That helped reduce her feelings of unease, but not completely, and she kept her emotions off to one side. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Production of young birds on the New Brunswick breeding grounds is definitely reduced, and adult birds that have been analyzed contain large residues of DDT and heptachlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The prognosis is looking up: in test subjects, lymphoid tumors have been seen to reduce in size. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "You'd like that, wouldn't you? To see my prize reduced to ruins and ashes." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We awaited his orders, a force greatly reduced and impatient for activity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At the end of it all, sixty thousand people were dead and virtually every building for miles reduced to rubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Our identity had been reduced to three letters: I DP. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Adults reduced to children, sitting with finger paints; a jolly supervisor telling them that everything they do is great. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z There were pits, but the erosion was much reduced. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The original range of the bird coincided with the range of the sage, and as the sagelands have been reduced, so the populations of grouse have dwindled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were led to it by a man named Charles Chappell, alleged to have helped Holmes reduce corpses to bone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This marked-up manuscript was then given to Laloo Chiba, who spent the next night transferring my writing to his own almost microscopic shorthand, reducing ten pages of foolscap to a single small piece of paper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time he had given those unsettling warnings, he had been airing out his own trauma, distancing himself from it by reducing it to a cautionary tale. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Resistant houseflies may have the stable-fly habit of sitting still in one place, thus greatly reducing the frequency of their contact with residues of poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She was reduced to eating the pumpkin leaves when every one of the new vegetables was devoured by beetles. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z George Pullman continued to cut jobs and wages without reducing rents, even though his company’s treasury was flush with over $60 million in cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sign-carrying, card- dispensing, tripping, kicking crusaders revved up their efforts to reduce our number to zero. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the simplest way to reduce future carnage would be to ban bottled oxygen except for emergency medical use. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He had been reducing drastically to make weight for another horse, and was barely able to stand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She found it sad that their legacy had been reduced to a field of rubble and a small modern town with an olive-oil museum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The test of intellectual excellence, however, had been reduced by tradition and unvoiced unanimity to a single area of study: Talmud. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Along with reducing Cold War tensions and improving relations with the United States and other western nations, Gorbachev granted the Soviet people freedoms that they had never experienced. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Just one delivered to a human would break every bone, would turn any piece of furniture into splinters, would reduce an entire house into a pile of rubble. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, funding for agencies responsible for drug treatment, prevention, and education was dramatically reduced. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Every step up the chain reduces the amount of food energy by a factor of ten. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once again all rations were reduced, except those of the pigs and the dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The ultimate answer is to use less toxic chemicals so that the public hazard from their misuse is greatly reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the statue was reduced into pieces that could be easily carted off, they did just that. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, perversely, pressure is growing in some quarters to reduce the number of shelters to discourage what is seen—amazingly to me—as overuse of the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the end, the seven resolutions were reduced to three. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The idea behind Liszt’s symphonic poems was to reduce the traditional four-movement symphony as exemplified by Beethoven into one concentrated, shorter piece that would be a musical response to a non-musical artwork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My personality was numb, reduced to a lumpish, loose, dissolved state. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “And Arthur. And Mrs. Dudley. I hope he doesn’t reduce us all to figures on a graph.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this case the only difference between the regions would be their initial configurations and so the strong anthropic principle would reduce to the weak one. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If he played the balance of diabetes management and reducing wrong, he could faint in the saddle while moving at forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was a way to exclude me even further from the case, reduce me to nothing, and, in a sense, substitute himself for me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If the availability of one species was reduced, they could gather and hunt more of other species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Agents told Blackie that they couldn’t cut a deal with him to reduce his sentence, and he spoke grudgingly at first about the murders, but gradually he divulged more and more. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Poor Mango has been reduced to a rat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Over two thousand condemned people sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes when they were children were now potentially eligible for relief and reduced sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I knew that drugs existed that could reduce or virtually eliminate the potency phase of the Gethenian sexual cycle; they were used when convenience, medicine, or morality dictated abstinence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When Dad made a motion study, he broke down each operation into a Therblig, and then tried to reduce the time taken to perform each Therblig. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs became cruder, the repertoire of themes reduced, the technical skill diminished. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z European settlement reduced the number of Aborigines by two means. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that the number of soldiers has multiplied, they wield more power and the chief’s role has been reduced to that of a manager. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the chaos and suffering I’d witnessed were not easily reduced to sound bites. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The diary would be reduced to ashes and himself to vapor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand how Fred’s death could be reduced to a blurb. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In a car at night visibility is reduced. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The government continues to reduce our food rations. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad went from factory to factory, installing his time-saving systems, reducing worker fatigue, so as to speed up production. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I dig through the first-aid kit I got from the boy from District 1 and find pills that reduce your temperature. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We, who were reduced to eating on the sidewalk, were suddenly elevated in status by this man’s misery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern was so consistent, Neumann told me, that Indians must have been purposefully reducing the number of deer, raccoons, and turkeys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I cannot work on you when you are this big, Lord. You must reduce yourself to . . . oh . . . about twelve feet.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Breeding seabirds were also quickly reduced in number but continued to be important food sources on some islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With husband and children now far away, her living space shrunk from a spacious house to a single room, her suitcase now her closet, Dorothy’s daily existence was reduced to its simplest elements. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Well. I think it could happen. Certainly it hasn’t happened yet. I’m not worried. More likely it would be a virus that reduces us by some per-=fr® centage. By thirty percent. By ninety percent.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I expected to hear something about Mike over the loudspeaker, but the only announcement they read was about reduced tickets to a carnival that’s coming to Tangerine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The committee had several recommendations to reduce the threat posed by such terrorists. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Good. We have to reduce your bile. If the mother has too much bile, the child will lack vigor and disobey his parents.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Eventually, I learned to incorporate recovery methods into my routine that would help reduce fatigue and bouts of exhaustion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If we so much as stumbled, they reduced our bread rations. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was an attempt to reduce power distance in the cockpit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Only when the series of equations had been sufficiently reduced would she start the process of inputting values and coming up with numbers using the calculating machines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A grown man reduced to trembling at the thought of entering an empty building—even that empty building—because there might be skeletons there? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Schindler's factory would be closing, and he would start reducing his workforce. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But if Jenny and the others stuck with the silly Dog Squad premise, Cha-Cha would be reduced to making one guest appearance. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Mr. McDuff came down from the mine to restore the fence and reported it had been reduced to splinters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, one seeks to provide a general, sustained service to one's employer, the value of which could never be reduced to a number of specific instances - such as that concerning Lord Halifax. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “We’re doing what the school counselor said, reducing reliance,” Dad says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, patients would often use only enough of these medicines to reduce the symptoms, saving the rest for future bouts of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Other long-term health problems may also have stemmed from reducing practices. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Could we have fought each other over these lifesaving machines, reducing them to scrap metal? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Just at that moment, Alba entered the room and saw her grandfather reduced to her own height. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not move, recalled nothing, and had no idea where she was or what had caused the intense pain that had reduced her to a heap of raw meat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Halley senior died without leaving a will and with his wealth considerably reduced by the extravagance of his second wife. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Equally important to understand is this: Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As the teacher reduces us to theorems, I must remain silent. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In effect, the burned-out portions of the city were reduced to their 1830’s primitive condition. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Many people had put off their visits in the expectation that the nation’s worsening economic crisis and pressure from Congress eventually would compel the railroads to reduce their Chicago fares. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I don’t do that, because it’s hard enough catching bats. No reason to reduce their numbers.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The question of how one could broach the topic of reducing his responsibilities was not, then, an easy one. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Boyle found that if the pressure was doubled, the volume of trapped air was halved; if the pressure was tripled the volume was reduced to a third; and so on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Farmer feared that PIH would be reduced to a tiny private charity, struggling to support its original project in the central plateau of Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “We thought we had reduced our baggage before,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Music can affect our heartbeat, blood pressure, and pulse rate, and reduce stress, anxiety and even depression. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The city’s 80 percent unemployment rate, a result of the Great Depression, had led factory managers to reduce wages and inspired thousands of citizens to support the strikers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z There would be s for women to reduce local maternal mortality. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He mixed white rice into tomato sauce, tasted it, and then covered it and reduced the heat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But there was one part in all this that he could not think through, one indistinct shape that the shambles twelve miles outside Dunkirk could not reduce to a simple outline. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was done by rotating the boom and wrapping the sail around it, like a rolled up window shade, until it was reduced enough so the wind couldn’t blow the boat over. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if we had been reduced to beggars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “That might get the judge in the mind-set to reduce the obstruction charge or maybe even throw it out.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Explosive increases in some kinds of soil organisms have occurred when others have been reduced by insecticides, disturbing the relation of predator to prey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is of course a legitimate concern about reducing complicated phenomena to simple numerical scales or statistics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, however, with Jefferson gone over to the other side and their former friendship reduced to polite and nervously evasive exchanges, Abigail became his chief and, in most respects, his sole collaborator. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His eyes strayed to the hall, where the languid chow chow was chewing on his newspaper, reducing it to an inky pulp. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The average adult would probably have been reduced to slapping the keyboard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He stated the matter simply: if I recognized the legitimacy of the Transkei government and was willing to move there, my sentence would be dramatically reduced. proposal, and again I turned him down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all studies of child development emphasize the role of childhood stimulation and activity in promoting mental development, and stress the irreversible mental stunting associated with reduced childhood stimulation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So suppose the United States wanted to reduce enemy forces by 20 percent—a significant figure, though hardly enough to break their will. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The number of general prisoners had been drastically reduced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt thrown under a limelight, reduced to a role I had never wanted but that I had been born to play. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It reduced complaints and he billed the client. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A doctor was summoned in the middle of the night and commanded to reduce the fever. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The ordeal had reduced us to skin and bones. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He had reduced private ownership of land, nationalized certain sectors of the economy, pioneered rapid industrialization, democratized education, and built a modem army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The mansion was reduced to a burned-out shell. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Maybe you could give us a reduced punishment as a warning. Then the full punishment if we mess up again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And these Saturdays are worst in the late winter when the snow has lost its novelty and its shine, and the school seems to have been reduced to only a network of drains. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Denna had been liberally dosed with charcoal, which effectively reduced that by a half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Harry had survived with nothing but a lightning-shaped cut on his forehead, and Voldemort had been reduced to something barely alive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z If the woman in the Catholic Book Store had not cashed my traveler’s check, I might have been reduced to the same thing. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not, however, reduce the rents in his company town. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Remarkably effective, the boycott reduced sales between 15 and 20 percent for a total loss to the targeted businesses of around a million dollars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She was grateful for our help and showed remarkable improvement when we told her that we were going to fight to get her sentence reduced, but she had many other needs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Even relative freedom from fallout, well short of the 95 percent cleanliness Strauss and the scientists had mentioned, could be achieved only from reducing yields. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The beaten, humiliated Kaan lost the support of its vassals and was reduced to penury. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And here and there, faded pale, almost reduced to white, there had once been blue. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As good as Farmer was as a clinical doctor, Hiatt had been urging him to rethink his priorities, including reducing his Haiti involvement to the role of consultant. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Ninety percent qualify for “free or reduced lunch,” which is to say that their families earn so little that the federal government chips in so the children can eat properly at lunchtime. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Here was a tool he could use, a process that could reduce the mysterious ways of politics to scientific testing and evaluation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Hugo had been reduced to a pile of debris. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Having reduced matter into its fundamental units, they sought to reduce life to similar material units. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It cheered when the exposition orchestra played “Home Sweet Home,” a song that never failed to reduce grown men and women to tears, especially the newest arrivals to the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Fewer operations meant better results and reduced the likelihood of complications. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Yossarian blazed with hatred and wrath when he saw he was the victim of an irresponsible joke that had destroyed his sleep and reduced him to a whimpering hulk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In addition to quail, wild turkeys were seriously reduced by the fire ant program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through the task. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Working on the assumption that the troll and human physiques were basically the same, he rained blow after blow on the dumb creature, reducing it to a heap of quivering fur in so many seconds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The pinch of the Depression forced many research philanthropies to reduce their grants for basic science in physics and chemistry, but money still flowed abundantly for projects in biology and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It cannot do so, however, if it has been damaged by disease or chemicals, or if the supply of the B-complex vitamins has been reduced. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps certain parts to be assembled could be painted red and others green, so as to reduce the time required for "search” and "find.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The ratio 4:6 reduced to lowest terms is 2:3. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Now his group was reduced to sixty people and the entire confederation to fewer than a thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The house where she lived with the grandmother who had raised her was reduced to ashes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Maribel had the kind of beauty that reduced people to simpletons. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z An article that cost thirty cents in 1912 still was thirty cents although mice and moths might seem to some to have reduced its value. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Morales had insisted she leave her notebooks in the car, so Emma had been reduced to writing potential code keys on napkins and awards tickets, and stuffing them in her pocket. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Stranger—for it was he who picked the child up—was reduced to painful gasps ... Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And to hinder Germany from starting another war, the treaty reduced their armed forces, which caused more jobs to be lost. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “To reduce disease, they tell us. Only in the most advanced cities. We live in a new Rome, my friend. An enlightened age!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time, and was reduced to staring at the handwriting itself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I saw Delacruz that afternoon checking a dictionary, making sure to spell correctly all the words in a legal appeal to get his sentence reduced. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar, because it reduces exceedingly complex histories to a few seemingly precise dates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had filed for bankruptcy, and by 1988 he was back on his feet again, in the oil business, although on a far reduced basis. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good old Buster,” he said, trying to reduce her rigid postural stance. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Similarly, the World Health Organization, spraying in Venezuela, is reported to have reduced cats to the status of a rare animal. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We were not permitted to speak much, there being little time for conversation; and so we were reduced to nods and watchful eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That would double their output or, to put it another way, reduce the requirement for 100 grams of daily production to only one thousand tanks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The three of them sat on the car’s roof in order, as they had in all the family portraits that had once hung in the stairwell and were now reduced to ash. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cole knew his own body would eventually die and decay and be reduced to dirt. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z It hurts, but the satisfaction of having Snow watch me dance with my little sister reduces other feelings to dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Those two ranked above asking drivers to slow down and reduce drinking and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had been a big man before age and arthritis reduced him to medium size. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Once again our rations have been reduced and many people are becoming sick. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With budgets busting, more than two dozen states have reduced or eliminated harsh mandatory minimum sentences, restored early-release programs, and offered treatment instead of incarceration for some drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I added some crushed berries for good measure, and then I heated the mixture over a candle flame, reducing it to a thick, heavy syrup. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold winter of 1957-58, when freezing temperatures gripped northern Florida, gave an unexpected opportunity to start the program while the screw-worm populations were reduced and confined to a small area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I can’t respect a man who can allow himself to be reduced to such rubble by women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Stephens described his realization that he could no longer take the punishment of reducing as “the biggest disappointment of my life.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The third time, the flames had reduced it to a charred carcass amid the smoke-guttering factories and slaughterhouses of the Stockyards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The Agriculture Department itself has credited these importations with appreciably reducing the frequency and destructiveness of gypsy moth outbreaks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Modern physics and chemistry have reduced the complexity of the sensible world to an astonishing simplicity: three units put together in various patterns make, essentially, everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Garfield wanted to reduce the corruption surrounding the Customs House, and he didn't like Conkling pushing him around. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Suffragists saw the vote as a way they could make the world a better place by using it to increase wages, eliminate child labor, and reduce government corruption. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z More blood came in behind it and was also reduced to gunk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At her feet, a section of the deck had been reduced to a circle of charcoal, but her cloak wasn’t even singed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z To reduce the pain, they anesthetized his throat. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Having absorbed Lawrence’s confidence that further efficiencies eventually would be achieved, Groves reduced the specification for Y-12 to five hundred tanks, or five racetracks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He did not give any reason for having changed his mind, but merely warned the animals that this extra task would mean very hard work; it might even be necessary to reduce their rations. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The other solution was to reduce the number of divisions from nineteen to a more manageable twelve and to fudge the swallowing up of the pitches that were left; out. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They destroy the shacks, reduce them to flat pieces of wood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His hopes that we could change people’s minds were visibly reduced. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "Not wishing to take advantage of this emergency, I've reduced the price to only five dollars each." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z New ant colonies in the forests at Molln are protected from woodpeckers by wire netting to reduce the toll. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It reduced a tree to sawdust—the tree disappeared as if they had blown it away ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The law was intended to reduce overgrazing by cattle, but its impact would be to further abridge land for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When his nerves were in rags after hours of questioning, even this appeal could reduce him to sniveling tears. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He reduced the volume of the radio and rearranged the sheets of writing paper before he opened the door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One way the permits had been reduced was simply by annually upping their cost by about two cents per head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of the Smoke had evaporated, the familiar streets reduced to an unrecognizable sprawl of ash and embers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z On the other hand, taste is conditioned solely by culture, which is so varied that it is impossible to reduce art to any one set of precepts. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The three ruling generals of the Roman Republic were now reduced to two. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He kissed me and I felt actual euphoria, like all my senses had merged and I was reduced to breaths and heartbeats and repeating integers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A little later one of those songs from the sixties came on, refreshingly tinny, made in a day when not all studio sound was automatically reduced to perfect resonance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I folded Astelle up, reduced her to a thick square and tucked her in my wallet, so she could ride around in my back pocket like some cursed charm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z To reduce the fever in a sick baby, to halt the brutalities of an overseer, to deliver one from a host of slave hells. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Before I could plot a logical course through the icefall, the wind came up, and snow began to slant hard out of the clouds, stinging my face and reducing visibility to almost nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our family is slowly starving to death and yet, each day, the government reduces our food ration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through this encounter with the fever their blood automatically produced antibodies that either fought off the yellow fever virus entirely or reduced its impact on the individual significantly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z When the blubber supply ran alarmingly low, Shackleton reduced the ration of warm drinks to one a day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Using music activities and songs helps to greatly increase independent performance and reduce anxiety. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I could reduce my caloric use by minimizing manual labor. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When the engineers analyzed Katherines reduced data, they were fascinated, realizing they were uncovering something they had not quite seen before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Walmart, which was then the nation’s largest grocery retailer, had joined our effort by pledging to cut the amount of sugar, salt, and fat in its food products and to reduce prices on produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She was pointing out that we Robinsons had been reduced to a true and ridiculous mess—unrecognizable with our swollen eyelids and dripping noses, our hurt and strange helplessness here in our own kitchen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The sleeping bags and clothing didn’t dry, but they were reduced from soaking wet to merely damp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z "Thanks to the Onion Knight we were never reduced to dining on corpses, but it was a close thing. Too close for Ser Gawen, who died in his cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When I ran out of reading matter, I was reduced to studying the ripstop pattern woven into the tent ceiling. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The Forest Biology Division agreed to modify the spraying program in every possible way short of destroying its effectiveness, in order to reduce risks to the fish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z TB experts had declared MDR treatment inordinately expensive, but no one had tried to reduce the main expense, which was high-priced drugs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It only takes twenty minutes to reduce the hydrazine and burn the hydrogen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, the new software was a match. Right on target. They said it would take a few weeks, and here it is three weeks later. It’s reduced the phantom pains, too.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Private profit has corrupted incentives to improve public safety, reduce the costs of mass incarceration, and most significantly, promote rehabilitation of the incarcerated. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sandman has reduced his expertise to a tidy equation: Risk = hazard + outrage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z All the candles in the room had been blown out and the fire reduced to ash. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I've never known our father to buy anything not marked reduced for quick sale. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As the guards were reduced in number, our attackers revved up a full campaign against us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Agassi has been reduced to a skeleton, so that as he moves to hit the ball, the movement of every joint in his body is clearly visible and measurable. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She explains hard things like reducing fractions and turning them into decimals. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It had the sleek, aerodynamic design of a hunter, every angle purpose-built to reduce drag to the merest fraction. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z This will reduce the anxiety of having to perform an 8-beat improvisation in front of the group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Just the word on its own is enough to reduce me to jelly, which everybody knows and makes use of to great effect. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z For one, researchers worry that heavy use of interactive media can, over time, reduce attention spans. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z ‘She’ll reduce the Acropolis to a smoking crater. Athens - your city - will be utterly destroyed, your people along with it. You believe me, don’t you?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Over the years his accent had diminished only marginally, and when they spoke, Mrs. Richardson was sometimes reduced to nodding and smiling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Calvinists aboard the Mayflower believed that the epidemic was evidence of God’s grace and goodness, because it had greatly reduced the population of the area the Plymouth Colony would occupy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton reduced the water ration to half a cup a day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She perched on the examining table, ankles crossed, reduced by the setting to an oversize, obedient child. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There weren’t as many palm trees there as I remembered, and some of the homes had been reduced to roofless walls and piles of twisted clay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And it was in this way that Despereaux became the only mouse sent to the dungeon whom the rats did not reduce to a pile of bones and a piece of red thread. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He started to pluck the feathers off quickly, and he did not speak until the chicken had been reduced to a slim form covered with white-yellow skin. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She could not imagine calling Obinze to ask him for reduced rent in one of his properties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As the cartons of survival rations diminished, I reduced my intake till I was following instructions exactly, holding myself to only two biscuits every eight hours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z One of his first tasks was to convince the generic manufacturers that reduced second-line antibiotic prices could still result in significant revenues and profits. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By dint of entreaties expressed in energetic whispers, I reduced the half-dozen to two: these however, he vowed he would select himself. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z If you want to use fewer, reduce the other ingredients accordingly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Incredibly, some of the last inscriptions are gibberish, as if scribes had lost the knowledge of writing and were reduced to meaningless imitation of their ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He wondered if they would all be reduced to eating ravens before the coming winter had run its course. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Trapping birds near an airport does little to reduce the number of times a bird will collide with a plane as it takes off or lands. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z All you had to do was introduce the scent of testosterone and perfectly capable, together girls were reduced to giggling, lash-batting, hair-playing idiots. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But she was sorry only because of Kimberly, the way she had begun to mix the salad as though to reduce it to a pulp. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They reduced matters to such a state that in an army of twenty thousand troops, one could hardly find two thousand foot-soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Her youngest daughter, who was about twelve, had reduced most of our staff to tears because she refused to let go of her mother the entire time she was in the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One side of the treasury had been reduced to rubble, smoke and dust billowing into the night sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She applied glycerine to smooth her lips, resisted sweets to reduce her measurements. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The pineapple chunk from the rim of the glass has already been reduced to rind. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The Sugar Act actually reduced the Molasses Act tax by half, but this time the British government intended to strongly enforce the new measure. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Early on, supplies became so short and the fighting so chaotic that many Red Army soldiers were reduced to wearing rags and going barefoot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Under the terms of the deal, Richard’s sentence could still be reduced to five years—if he successfully jumped through a series of hoops. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z That question never failed to reduce Franklin D. Roosevelt to silence touched with awe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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