How to Use diminution in a Sentence

diminution

noun
  • Hope seemed like too much to hope for after these four years of destruction and diminution.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Still, France’s trade unions see any diminution of benefits as the thin end of the wedge.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020
  • What has changed over the past year has been a diminution of regulatory risk.
    — Paul Vigna, WSJ, 14 Apr. 2021
  • There was no diminution of his polymathic intellect as his body failed.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 30 July 2020
  • These days, the bank is fighting to maintain an edge that has been blunted by the diminution of its core trading business.
    — Emily Flitter and Kate Kelly, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • So might a suit about construction defects, harm to property or diminution in its value.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Is your view that that won't happen, that there will be no diminution in corporate activity, or is your view?
    — CBS News, 2 May 2021
  • That one line is the dividing line between growth of the virus and a decrease of it, or diminution of it, in terms of incidents.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2020
  • However, in recent years, more and more have continued north to see what’s left of the lake, and the land its diminution left behind.
    — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Another telltale sign of infection may be a sudden, profound diminution of one’s sense of smell and taste.
    — Katherine J. Wu, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2020
  • The effect of this, of course, is the diminution of anything and everything that does not matter to Europe.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The past 70 years has seen the increasing diminution of the country’s standing in the global order.
    — Neel Mukherjee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Of course, the early witnesses to Tongan culture were the agents of its disruption and diminution.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The next morning, everyone makes big talk about history and legend-making; the feeling of diminution lingers.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • That in turn pushes prices lower and causes a further diminution in liquidity supply.
    — Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Several reasons account for this diminution.
    — Jason Fogelson, AJC.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Nope — those three sanctimonious defenders of our democracy are all down with the deep-state’s diminution of our democracy.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
  • One result will be a diminution of candor, and a commensurate increase in grandstanding and playing to the public back home.
    — Jonathan Rauch, Time, 19 May 2017
  • The film doesn’t address this diminution of her role after the first film at all, instead pivoting full force into Momoa’s charisma.
    — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The flip-side of increasing representation in one area is diminution of electoral power in another.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The punishment for men is the Atlantis-esque destruction of Númenor and the diminution of long lifespans for all but a few men.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The 13 least populous states would suffer the largest diminution of their weight in presidential politics.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • America’s embracing of English soccer could, on some level, be read as the diminution of its own sporting landscape.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • He was released early in 2022 after earning diminution credits.
    — Hannah Gaskill, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
  • The same diminution is currently happening to the composition of an opening paragraph with a clear thesis statement.
    — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Well, not good things for those that are in the immediate area of the fire obviously, but further out, the answer is that there is very little, if any impact save for the diminution of light.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 4 July 2019
  • There are very few people who have experienced this kind of early success in one field who would willingly submit to the demands and diminutions of advancement in a second.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • Racial caste in the United States makes all people of color vulnerable to assaults, diminution and violence at the hands of white supremacy.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The diminution of trust in the American political system has come during a moment of vast retrenchment of local news outlets.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • This diminution of news might be a way for Facebook to walk away from the public sphere—or, at least, appear to walk away—at a time when it has been taken to task for its overweening influence there.
    — Eric Klinenberg, The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019

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