For the last few years, the IRS has been tinkering with the withholding tables, trying to reduce the default values of the tables to over withhold (which causes refunds that are too large). This is one possibility, although somewhat hard to prove.
Of course, there are other possibilities - have you done a line by line comparison between your 2022 and 2023 returns?
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