Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.

American Businesswoman

Isabel Gillies

If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters.

American Actress

Herman Kahn

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.

American Scientist

George Sutherland

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

English Judge

H. P. Lovecraft

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.

American Novelist

Garrett Hardin

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

American Environmentalist

Jane McGonigal

We can boost our immune systems by strengthening our social networks and decreasing stress.

American Designer

Yu Darvish

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

Japanese Baseball Player

Rashida Jones

Caring about what people think of me decreases everyday.

Rebecca Miller

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

American Director

Use 'decrease' when discussing quantity, size, intensity, or numbers becoming smaller.

Context Matters

'Decrease' can be positive, neutral, or negative depending on what is reducing.

Not Always Negative

Often paired with adverbs to indicate the speed or amount of change, like 'significantly'.

Measure Change

The noun 'decrease' refers to the occurrence or instance of something lessening.

Tangible Instances

'Decrease' as a noun often represents measurable change, used with figures or percentages.

Quantifiable Change

Can describe both physical reduction and abstract concepts like interest or effort.

Physical or Abstract

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 The things you can control are the temperature difference between the inside and the outside. There's this remarkable technology called a you grasp it, rotate it to the left, and your energy consumption in the home will decrease. I've tried it. It works. Some people call it a lifestyle change.

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