reductively
- a word derived from reductive.
Example Sentences
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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
Poitier’s body of work is often spoken of, both rightly and reductively, as a series of historic firsts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2022
To put it reductively, if you get sick right now, you may feel shame or be shamed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 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
