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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dialed down" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to reducing the intensity, volume, or level of something.
Example: "After receiving feedback, the team decided to dial down the project's scope to make it more manageable."
Alternatives: "scaled back" or "reduced intensity."
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dialed down
verb
Past of dial down
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Mr. Assange certainly seems to have dialed down his language after the experience of "Collateral Murder".
Even when they dialed down the puck trail's intensity, it didn't offer any relief from the distraction.
Her or his underlying physiological arousal is dialed down enough for sleep to arrive more readily, as it did in the 2010 experiment.
But the agency postponed voting on one of the most contentious aspects of the exchange rule and dialed down other provisions, eliciting criticism from some consumer advocates.
Either the aggressiveness of the discourse would need to be dialed down, I've thought, or the violence on the streets would need to be dialed up.
Peggy nestled into Brooke's shoulder as the vent was dialed down and the morphine was delivered so he wouldn't feel like he was strangling.
Goldman Sachs and AIG gave up their customary hospitality suites this year, other firms dialed down their profiles, and there wasn't a Lehman brother in sight.
MTV and VH1 have dialed down the over-the-top extravaganzas like "My Super Sweet 16" for more uplifting fare like "T.
Since proclaiming to reporters before the season that Gallinari was the best shooter he had seen, D'Antoni has dialed down his descriptions of Gallinari, but still views his development as a key to the season.
The chemical maker also dialed down its 2009 guidance and projected continued economic weakness.
Indeed, when the researchers turned up the heat in a dish of E. coli, the bugs dialed down activity in genes that normally operate in high-oxygen conditions.
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