But I must admit you've got a way of reducing things to their essentials.

Furthermore, the somewhat increase in weight would reduce things like mobility.

And if you reduce things to action, there just isn't much of it.

Mass communication tends to reduce things to their lowest level.

We love to reduce things to symbols, whether for villainy or glory.

The quake demons can reduce living things to a crushed mess.

By contrast, ontological reduction is the process of reducing things themselves to one another.

"There's just something about reducing things to one-quarter size models," he said.

"Once you reduce things by codifying them, everything starts sounding the same."

It tests my ability to reduce things to the basics.