cauterizing

present participle of cauterize

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Verb
  • Automated Back-Office Operations AI uses advanced analytics and machine learning to add efficiency to back-office operations, increasing productivity and reducing costs.
    Babu Sivadasan, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Trekking poles, like the Cascade Mountain Lightweight Aircraft-Grade Aluminum Trekking Poles that are on sale for $25, offer stability on uneven terrain, reducing strain on joints.
    Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Simultaneously, her greener-than-green sous chef Lucia (Barbie Ferreira) — another hire by Andreas — flirts up a storm with their financer and starts testing her new boss’s rapidly diminishing patience.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Chief among them is the war in Ukraine, where Moscow is intent on diminishing popular support among Americans for Ukrainian independence.
    Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • China has struggled with looming deflationary pressures due to a prolonged real estate downturn and weakening domestic consumer confidence.
    Anniek Bao,Sonia Heng, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024
  • So far, that has meant assaulting Gaza and weakening Hamas, before obliterating Hezbollah’s command structure, including killing its powerful leader Hassan Nasrallah.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Goodnow Farms Dark Chocolate The floral green Sichuan peppercorns in this velvety treat are more aromatic than numbing, highlighting the herbaceous Peruvian cacao.
    Megan Zhang, Saveur, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The number of storms crossing the region was numbing.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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