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How to use the word lessens in a Sentence?

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Knowing that Iranian people are actually taking this as a moral responsibility to celebrate lessens my guilt, and I’m happy to support them in celebrating our beautiful tradition. – Shabnam Salehezadeh	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Young People often find a way to get the information Young People seek. When parents and caregivers normalize their curiosities and provide pathways for Young People to exercise their autonomy in safe ways, it often lessens their impulse for secrecy or thrill-seeking. – Pintor Carnagey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Once you start breaking down a nut, it just lessens the time for freshness. – Maureen Ternus	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
2016 will be a bit of a transition year, as we get through Gleevec, but once that generic exposure lessens in 2017 and 2018, you should see the true underlying growth come through. – Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It could potentially be quite serious because if a company has to provide cash (to top up collateral), it will affect liquidity, and if it has to pledge more assets, that lessens your ability to borrow more money, it will potentially limit their ability to expand. – Jonathan Silver	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The benefit to this testing is really to make it less random and to have more info— that’s not to say side effects can’t occur even if genetic testing says it shouldn’t be occurring. But it lessens that risk and gives us little more guideposts for medicine. – Kathleen Chard	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The idea of calling it racial bias lessens the blow, do you want to lessen the blow or do you want to eradicate racism? I want to eradicate racism. – Crystal Moten	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed. – Clare Boothe Luce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. – Adure Lord	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. – Clare Booth Luce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Knowing that Iranian people are actually taking this as a moral responsibility to celebrate lessens my guilt, and I’m happy to support them in celebrating our beautiful tradition.

– Shabnam Salehezadeh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Young People often find a way to get the information Young People seek. When parents and caregivers normalize their curiosities and provide pathways for Young People to exercise their autonomy in safe ways, it often lessens their impulse for secrecy or thrill-seeking.

– Pintor Carnagey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once you start breaking down a nut, it just lessens the time for freshness.

– Maureen Ternus

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

2016 will be a bit of a transition year, as we get through Gleevec, but once that generic exposure lessens in 2017 and 2018, you should see the true underlying growth come through.

– Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It could potentially be quite serious because if a company has to provide cash (to top up collateral), it will affect liquidity, and if it has to pledge more assets, that lessens your ability to borrow more money, it will potentially limit their ability to expand.

– Jonathan Silver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The benefit to this testing is really to make it less random and to have more info— that’s not to say side effects can’t occur even if genetic testing says it shouldn’t be occurring. But it lessens that risk and gives us little more guideposts for medicine.

– Kathleen Chard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The idea of calling it racial bias lessens the blow, do you want to lessen the blow or do you want to eradicate racism? I want to eradicate racism.

– Crystal Moten

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

– Clare Boothe Luce

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.

– La Rochefoucauld

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

– Adure Lord

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

– Clare Booth Luce

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

– Cicero

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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