The phrase "a reduction in the wording of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of shortening or simplifying text or language.
Example: "The editor suggested a reduction in the wording of the article to make it more concise and easier to read."
Alternatives: "a shortening of the text" or "a simplification of the language."
The results demonstrate a relationship between forests and lower average body mass index (BMI); in other words, a reduction in the risk of being overweight.
In conclusion, older adults showed a reduction in the lasting effects of negatively-valenced words intermixed with a series of neutral words.
If the latter had been the case, we would have observed a consistent improvement in reading speed across all word lengths; that is, a reduction in the intercepts but not the slopes of patients' word length effect plots.
A decline of one category in gait speed between 2007 and 2009, but not 2007 2008 was associated with a reduction in word recall of approximately 0.3 of a word.
In other words, when the signals are transmitted at a higher frequency band, the performance improves at the cost of a reduction in the resolvable range.
In other words, activity of these inhibitory neurons upon a target would result in a reduction in the causal influence measured between other neurons and this target.
Omotic languages also have a marked reduction in the phonological material of words compared with other Afro-Asiatic languages.
He believes that the coming fights on spending and deficit reduction will fall squarely in his budget "sweet spot," in the words of a friend.
In the words of Chuck Hagel, the man likely to replace Panetta, the spending reductions would "devastate" the military.
A recent Glasgow Media Group study revealed a near-tripling of these words in papers, alongside a reduction in reports on discrimination and sympathetic stories about disabled people.
