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were downsized
verb
To reduce in size or number.
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Adorable wooden cottages on wheels have exploded in popularity not because people wanted to downsize, but because they were downsized.
Thus, while most of the Army was downsizing, Fort Lewis began to grow, however, several tenant units such as the 9th Infantry Division were downsized.
Children grew up, jobs were downsized, marriages ended.
Over half the managers who were downsized indicated that they had recently lost the support of their sponsor.
Pluto and Eris were downsized to "dwarf planets" -- roundish objects that do not gravitationally dominate their orbits.
As a group, those who were downsized rated, on average, only in the 32nd percentile on their strategic ability – that is, worse than two-thirds of their colleagues.
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But then I realized, I haven't been downsized, the company's been downsized.
Downsizing - Thousands of people are downsized every day.
You will be downsized.
India is also likely to be downsized.
Travel and ideas have also been downsized.
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