DOWNSCALE Synonyms: 113 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

ˈdau̇n-ˌskāl

Definition of downscale

as in to reduce

to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent the poor economy forced the plant to downscale production

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adjective

as in down-market

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Recent Examples of downscale

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Those are too many pixels for the entry-level Neo to push, so Apple downscales to 4K for the entry-level Mac. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026 Yet several cities have needed to downscale their plans, particularly around official fan festivals. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026

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Becket grew up poor, in downscale Belleville, NJ (his mother was kicked to the curb after getting pregnant out of wedlock). — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026 Lebowitz recalled that Navarro bought and renovated a three-story building in one of Cambridge’s more downscale neighborhoods. — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for downscale

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Sullivan touted his Bycatch Reduction Act, a bill intended to reduce excess fish caught by large commercial trawlers.

— Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
Energy-absorbing seats are designed to manage forces transmitted to occupants during an impact, potentially reducing injury risks.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduce

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The definitive study of feedback, Avraham Kluger and Angelo DeNisi’s meta-analysis of 23,663 observations, found that over a third of feedback interventions decreased performance.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
These include gravitational forces, commonly known as G-forces, that increase or decrease the pressure riders feel on their bodies during rapid acceleration and deceleration.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

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President Donald Trump‘s appearance in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday underlines the Mahoning Valley as a bellwether of whether Democrats can win back the white, working-class voters that have rapidly shifted away from the party in recent years.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
The memoirs of twentieth-century working-class politicians across the Western world echo with testimonies to the power of words.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of working-class

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Measles usually kills two or three people in every 1,000 cases, the WHO says, but the disease can be more deadly in poorer nations because of factors such as malnutrition.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
That receiver sends that poor defender into next week at the pylon.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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