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

He’s often remembered, reductively, as a tortured genius.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2015

There is no possibility of diversified, personal approaches to aging if we are all reductively “aged by culture,” to use the age critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s iconic phrase, from her 2004 book, “Aged by Culture.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2015

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