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Adapted from the 2021 magical-realist novel by Rachel Yoder that powerfully tapped into COVID-19-era rage of mothers across the country, “Nightbitch” has reductively been described as “the movie where Amy Adams turns into a dog.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

This is Shiga’s Imports, a store that could be reductively described as a Japanese gift shop, but it means far more than that to the neighborhood.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

But before you reductively cite "The Handmaid's Tale" as a frame of reference reconsider what it implies.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2021

When “Please Like Me” débuted, in 2013, it was sometimes pitched, reductively but understandably, as “the gay ‘Girls.’

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

The sublime and exuberant imagery of the latter exists reductively as an important virtue of the present lyric.

From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Jackson, Wallace