Example Sentences
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She told “Good Morning America” that Johnson has taken part in a clinical trial for a therapy “that decreases inflammation, and I think that helped him a lot.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
Doctors prescribing GLP-1s to young children cite the severity of childhood obesity and its complications, seeing significant BMI decreases in some patients.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
“The cost rate decreases with an increase in total net immigration because immigration occurs at relatively young ages, thereby increasing the number of covered workers earlier than the number of beneficiaries,” the trustees report.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
But that was "offset by lower food prices, with decreases in inflation seen across a range of meat, dairy and vegetable items compared to last month", Fitzner said.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
These areas would show changes— like increases and decreases in blood flow—when study subjects were trying to focus on something, or when they were overwhelmed with information, putting intensified pressure on the attention networks.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
