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Discover LudwigThe phrase "address less" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be a truncation or a misinterpretation of a phrase, and without context, it is unclear how it could be used.
Example: "We need to address less the minor issues and focus on the main problem."
Alternatives: "reduce focus on" or "minimize discussion of".
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The first episode also includes tear-jerking giveaways that address less dire circumstances.
Mr. Thaksin pitched his 20-minute address less to the points of law in the case than to the emotions of his supporters.
Also useful in narrowing a search are a middle name or initial, prior address less than 15 years old and the names of parents or male siblings; sisters' surnames may have changed.
"One year of Watergate is enough". President Bill Clinton made his 1998 address less than a week after most of the nation heard the name Monica Lewinsky for the first time.
Rather than suggest a retreat from traditional civil rights protections, the 2008 election calls for enhancing and maintaining efforts to ensure that civil rights laws address less virulent, but persistent, forms of racism that persist in America today.
Unlike Mr. Spitzer, who fired shot after shot across the bow of Albany's political establishment in his inaugural address less than 15 months ago, Mr. Paterson warmly embraced the capital's two other major powers: the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno.
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To address less-than-lifetime exposure to mutagenic impurities in pharmaceuticals, an approach is applied in which the acceptable cumulative lifetime dose (1.5 μg/day × 25,550 days = 38.3 mg) is uniformly distributed over the total number of exposure days during less-than-lifetime exposure.
As his work addressed less controversial subjects, Zhang often received the support of the Chinese government.
Meeting Tush, you begin to understand that the Fairtrade guarantee is addressed less to the farmers than to the shoppers.
It is less a cathedral art than an art of parish churches and is addressed less to an assembled ecclesia than to the individual believer.
Breivik sent the document to 1,003 email addresses less than an hour and half before he launched his attack with a huge bomb blast in Oslo.
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