minimize

In a sentence

Six example sentences with minimize, each labelled with its topic.

• The farm changed its irrigation schedule to minimize water lost to evaporation during the hottest six weeks.

  Environment

• Surgeons plan the incision to minimize scarring, which matters as much to patients as the length of the operation.

  Medicine

• Engineers rewrote the loader to minimize startup time, and the application now opens before the splash screen finishes.

  Technology

• Retirees sell losing shares in December to minimize the tax owed on gains they took earlier in the year.

  Finance

• The point guard's job is to minimize turnovers, and she went the whole tournament with only four of them.

  Basketball

• Chill the dough before rolling it out to minimize shrinking once the pastry meets the heat of the oven.

  Cooking

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• deny
• devices
• motive
• promote
• concept
• administration
• consequence
• identity
• consume
• assistance
• discrimination
• occupy