How to Use miniaturize in a Sentence

miniaturize

verb
  • Technology has made it possible to miniaturize electronic circuits.
  • Or to put it another way, there is some work to be done to miniaturize this.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2017
  • That could change if the team is able to miniaturize the actuators further.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2019
  • It was inspired by the mechanism of a Breguet clock, but miniaturized for the wrist.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
  • And Madni’s effort to miniaturize them and reduce their cost blazed the trail.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Gu hopes to miniaturize it to roughly the size of a USB drive, in the long term.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Much of the work centers on miniaturizing the detection zone.
    — Lucy Glynn, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • To get a handle on it, scale down or miniaturize the universe so its size is a little easier to relate to.
    — Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
  • But miniaturizing the spheres led to even more profound discovery.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Those companies have for years been plodding along, miniaturizing basic blood tests one at a time, with a few dozen to show for it.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2018
  • This differs from cetaceans, which miniaturized their bony labyrinths soon after entering the water.
    — Fox News, 21 Apr. 2020
  • More power means more heat and noise, which might ultimately limit the extent to which the chip could be miniaturized.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Also known as sour gherkins and mouse melons, the fruits look like someone miniaturized a watermelon to the size of a small grape or olive.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The mmWave sensor can be miniaturized to fit into small commonplace objects like pens.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 22 Aug. 2025
  • More specifically, Intel seems to have done a lot of work to miniaturize the display system.
    — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2018
  • Next, the group plans to miniaturize the hardware needed to run the system, which Oskam now carries in a backpack.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • Experts believe North Korea needs more time to miniaturize its warheads so they can be launched on missiles.
    — Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 4 July 2017
  • Joseph formed miniaturized after heading a pair of Petty tribute shows, both of which were held at the Casbah.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Brands have been miniaturizing their watches lately, and shrinking down a classic like this feels perfectly in step with the moment.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The research has also helped miniaturize size and reduce the cost of lasers used for medicine, pharmacology and defense.
    — Jane Kim, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • However, the design can be miniaturized, and the researchers built a version that weighs only 9 milligrams.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
  • There’s no bridge from here to there, no technological process that must simply be miniaturized or scaled up or optimized to reach a solution.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Those electronics could almost certainly be miniaturized, which would reduce the weight further.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 26 June 2019
  • Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2022
  • So the company’s engineers are now miniaturizing the machine for use in aviation.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
  • Second, this method could enable a new type of nuclear clock that is simpler and potentially easier to miniaturize.
    — Andrei Derevianko, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
  • For decades, our ability to miniaturize components led to us doubling the number of transistors on a silicon chip every two years or so.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
  • And what Samsung have managed to do, and [what] Oura and others have managed to do, is just miniaturize that technology.
    — Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 30 July 2024
  • The defense said Holmes made mistakes while running the company that worked to miniaturize blood tests, but acted in good faith and never crossed the line into fraud.
    — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Dyson has now miniaturized that cyclone and tucked it into a small robot vacuum called the Dyson 360 Eye.
    — Nena Farrell, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018

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