Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

So, I’m still unlearning that, which is the reductiveness of the ’90s, where you have to stay one thing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Of course one of the best things that Japan has taught me is not to think in terms of simple binaries, the kind of reductiveness I’m offering here.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

Yet every time I was growing tired of his either/or reductiveness, Brooks would disarm me with an unexpected fact or swerve.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2015

It also has the reductiveness of its scenario.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2010

In both those cases, after all, an undeniable reductiveness is going on, a shriveling of the complexity of the human body to the certainty of a single cell in a Petri dish.

From Time Magazine Archive