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The phrase "and tried to reduce" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to lessen or diminish something, such as costs, risks, or negative impacts.
Example: "The company implemented new strategies and tried to reduce expenses to improve profitability."
Alternatives: "and attempted to lessen" or "and sought to minimize".
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It targeted social exclusion and tried to reduce rough sleeping.
Many emerging markets recognized the dangers and tried to reduce capital inflows.
"The team worked well again and tried to reduce the gap.
Such a foray would mark the tentative outlines of a new strategy for British Telecommunications, which in the last year has reorganized, replaced senior management and tried to reduce its debt.
With its verdict, the jury found that Mr. Fawell illegally directed state employees to work on campaigns for the State Legislature, the 1996 presidential primary, and Mr. Ryan's successful 1998 bid for the statehouse, and tried to reduce campaign costs by using government supplies, including cellphones, paper and even a refrigerator and a television.
Confronted with the deficits and the constraints of the city's brush with bankruptcy in 1975, he held down spending, subdued the municipal unions, restored the city's creditworthiness, revived a moribund capital budget, began work on long-neglected bridges and streets, cut antipoverty programs and tried to reduce the friction between Manhattan and the more tradition-minded other boroughs.
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It was an experience for this young squad to play with pressure and try to reduce the gap.
The courts typically work six days a week and try to reduce adjournments that lead to long delays in cases.
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