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Of all the engineering controls, ventilation is probably the most effective tool to minimize infection spread.

Those 4.1 days of vacation often include a weekend, minimizing the risk of finding somebody else in your seat when you return.

Speaking of the TSA leads directly into a final way of minimizing the excesses and wastefulness of a national surveillance state.

But, the essay is also myopic—once again exaggerating Jewish guilt and minimizing Palestinian blame and responsibility.

But then people started defending--or minimizing to the point of untruth--the clearly indefensible.

I'm not minimizing the problem of prescription drug abuse, mind you; I've known a few people who've had a hard time with it.

There is only too much to see, too much to do, and his process is the one that comes nearest to minimizing the quantity.

The methods adopted for minimizing or disguising the importance of women in the Iliad and Odyssey are very amusing.

The full possibilities of this method of minimizing the effects of storm water are rarely fully utilized in road construction.

True, there could be no minimizing of the event either in the matter of casualties or damage done.

I do not say more painful, because medical science has found ways of minimizing the pains of childbirth.