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Discover LudwigThe phrase "reductive to" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that has been reduced to a simpler form or level. For example, "The team's research was reductive to the conclusion that the law needed to be changed."
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"Film is reductive to a single protagonist, but a series allows you a degree of latitude.
Yet it's reductive to view "The Blackwater Lightship" as a gay novel.
"It's so savagely reductive to attempt to reduce literature to some algorithm," he told me.
"It's reductive to say so, but it is really a show about why New Orleans matters".
It's totally reductive to put Abedin on a pedestal as Weiner's forgiving, "graceful" spouse.
"It's way too reductive to just think publishing has a constrained future," he said.
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Walt's methamphetamine becomes blue when he switches from pseudoephedrine reduction to reductive amination.
It would be over-reductive to express this as a male/female thing, or a left-brain/right-brain sort of thing (putting it in such binary terms is so left-brain, after all).
However, bioaugmentation with dechlorinating bacteria is required to achieve complete reductive dechlorination to ethene.
Because of their obligate intracellular character, rickettsiae are believed to be undergoing reductive evolution to a minimal genome.
Reductive attempts to close the gap tried to make the conclusion 'move down' to the premises, as in phenomenalism.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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