How to Use reductive in a Sentence

reductive

adjective

• But at the same time, there is something reductive about the last third of the book.
  — Noah Hawley, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Slightly reductive on the nose with a touch of smoke and some over ripe green fruits.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• At its most reductive, this dish is Martínez’s take on chips and dip.
  — Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2018
• But there is something about the culture that is, at the very least, reductive.
  — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
• But that’s too reductive for what Lin has done here, which is to write a crime novel as a slice of life.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
• Black life, that is realized here in the most reductive of forms.
  — Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
• The reductive portrait of class warfare would’ve felt cheap in a Hunger Games rip-off 10 years ago.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 9 July 2020
• Or that’s the simple, arguably reductive way to think about it.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
• But at the same time, that art is exhausting and reductive.
  — Zito Madu, GQ, 24 Apr. 2018
• The actors and the series as a whole are careful not to paint Mira or Jonathan with reductive strokes.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021
• Puryear’s best work is reductive, striving to reach an essence.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• Trump and Sessions blame this gang violence on drugs, but that's reductive to say the least.
  — Don Winslow, Time, 20 June 2017
• The problem for teams that are greater than the sum of their parts—like Indiana—is that the playoffs have a way of being reductive.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Keep in mind that this is a fairly reductive way to view overall health and wellness.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Yet the film also wants to cue us to the gossipy and reductive way that this kind of thinking has too often been applied to her.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 July 2024
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a feminist hero, and that’s the most reductive way to put it.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2020
• These are fables, which means on some level these 30-minute stories have to be reductive in some way.
  — Sonaiya Kelleystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• There’s also a danger for AI in hiring to be too reductive.
  — Chika Dunga, Quartz at Work, 13 Nov. 2020
• The products read like Product, with a design so reductive there could be anything in there.
  — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• Yet, with Learn My Lesson, Robert throws that reductive nonsense out the window.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• So now that that old definition of greatness has proven reductive, what does the term mean?
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2020
• There is something reductive about this kind of writing, right?
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 18 July 2022
• The play draws direct, and at times reductive, parallels between the past and recent present.
  — Naveen Kumar, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• This is incredibly reductive, but think of it as a glossier cross between Twitch and Zoom.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• This is a choice forced by health-care economics and reductive ideas about the line between living and dying.
  — Rachael Bedard, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2022
• Yes, the lead was stupidly reductive, but nothing a little self-soothing at the minibar couldn’t fix.
  — Karen Karbo, National Geographic, 25 Mar. 2019
• The plan was to create a car that impressed by a reductive design, drawing attention to what isn’t there as much as what is.
  — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Hurley’s mental illness was thus explicitly tied to his weight, a reductive understanding of a link that research suggests is far more complex.
  — Rebecca Bodenheimer, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
• By embracing food politics in her platform, Harris could challenge these reductive stereotypes.
  — Kelly Alexander, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024