How to Use miniaturize in a Sentence

miniaturize

verb
  • Technology has made it possible to miniaturize electronic circuits.
  • It was inspired by the mechanism of a Breguet clock, but miniaturized for the wrist.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Or to put it another way, there is some work to be done to miniaturize this.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2017
  • And Madni’s effort to miniaturize them and reduce their cost blazed the trail.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Next, the group plans to miniaturize the hardware needed to run the system, which Oskam now carries in a backpack.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 24 May 2023
  • To get a handle on it, scale down or miniaturize the universe so its size is a little easier to relate to.
    Mike Lynch / Sky Watch, Twin Cities, 18 Feb. 2017
  • The X’er also had to miniaturize the electronics of a traditional EEG to fit inside the two buds.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Joseph formed miniaturized after heading a pair of Petty tribute shows, both of which were held at the Casbah.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Hardscape and structures: As with paths, don't miniaturize them.
    Kym Pokorny | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 15 May 2017
  • Dyson has now miniaturized that cyclone and tucked it into a small robot vacuum called the Dyson 360 Eye.
    Nena Farrell, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • His character, Tommy, is seen in the Green Ranger suit and helmet but spends most of the story miniaturized and frozen by one of Rita's monsters.
    Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • More specifically, Intel seems to have done a lot of work to miniaturize the display system.
    Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 17 Dec. 2018
  • For a savory treat, take the idea of a pizza bagel and miniaturize it with some sturdy crackers to sate rumbling tummies in the hours before dinner.
    USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • The defense said Holmes made mistakes while running the company that worked to miniaturize blood tests, but acted in good faith and never crossed the line into fraud.
    Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Experts believe North Korea needs more time to miniaturize its warheads so they can be launched on missiles.
    Matt Stiles, latimes.com, 4 July 2017
  • The research has also helped miniaturize size and reduce the cost of lasers used for medicine, pharmacology and defense.
    Jane Kim, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • This differs from cetaceans, which miniaturized their bony labyrinths soon after entering the water.
    Fox News, 21 Apr. 2020
  • While Medtronic’s pacemaker fits in children, both Dubin and Shah said the device should be miniaturized even further.
    Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Warhead Progress North Korea has claimed progress in its ability to miniaturize a nuclear bomb to fit a warhead onto a missile.
    Shinhye Kang, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • In the past 10 years, the technology has been miniaturized, but still used for critical care situations, to find out what’s happening in a distressed body.
    Brittany Shoot, Smithsonian, 27 Jan. 2017
  • There’s no bridge from here to there, no technological process that must simply be miniaturized or scaled up or optimized to reach a solution.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2020
  • For 2 decades, physicists have strived to miniaturize particle accelerators—the huge machines that serve as atom smashers and x-ray sources.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 July 2021
  • The United States has not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to miniaturize a warhead.
    Rachel Lewis, Time, 5 July 2017
  • For decades, our ability to miniaturize components led to us doubling the number of transistors on a silicon chip every two years or so.
    IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
  • To reach their goal, North Korean weapons designers are looking to miniaturize their warheads, making them far lighter and more powerful.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
  • So guests could help themselves and sample widely, Basque restaurants miniaturized their offerings, spearing them with toothpicks and displaying them along the bar.
    Jonah Miller, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Some of the mumbo really is jumbo, as before—the technology that miniaturizes Ant-Man can also giantize him.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • Engineers and designers can do only so much to miniaturize transistors and pack as many of them as possible into chips.
    IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The nonprofit startup is aiming to miniaturize ultrasound in a neural implant.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Solenoid valves and atomizers miniaturize the concept The olfactory display can dynamically mix scents to match a scene.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2023

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