How to Use attenuate in a Sentence

attenuate

verb

• Earplugs will attenuate the loud sounds of the machinery.
• If that’s the case, then hot and humid weather could attenuate the spread of the disease.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 18 June 2020
• At some stage the influences that have pushed down yields will attenuate, even if this is not soon.
  — The Economist, 5 June 2019
• Among the naysayers, almost half point to the invasion of Ukraine and the attenuating death tolls.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 28 July 2023
• As the state gets hotter, more and more water will evaporate away from its canals, which the panels can help attenuate.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 19 Mar. 2021
• Earmuffs are ear cushions that sit over the ears and are made from a material that attenuates sounds.
  — Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 13 Mar. 2023
• The new data suggests that while rebates have helped to rein in prescription drug spending, the effect will attenuate over the next decade.
  — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2018
• This creates a soft halo that attenuates the contrast between the light source and the surrounding darkness.
  — Catherine Anderson, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2017
• As the tiny particles of light travel through the network’s glass fibers, imperfections in the glass cause the light to attenuate after a certain distance.
  — Jeanne Whalen, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2022
• The expansive dash-to-axle distance continues the theme, attenuating with a lengthy door and a rather compact rear section.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2023
• Even tiny cracks in the weather-proofing around cables can allow water molecules to embed in the strands and attenuate the signal.
  — Rob Goodier, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2018
• Once the swarm arrives, the best officials can do is deploy pesticides to attenuate the crop destruction.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
• As shelters, like every other workplace, find their staff attenuated by the outbreak, the delays may grow longer.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• The sound of the Tour Pro 2s is fairly neutral, with no frequencies overly boosted or attenuated.
  — Geoffrey Morrison, wsj.com, 31 Oct. 2023
• The objective is to attenuate the body's response to new calorie restriction and/or exercise, and thereby even up the starting points.
  — David Prologo, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2018
• And that may mean that the generative A.I. revolution will be, well, if not canceled, then at least attenuated.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 June 2023
• All of which would be more than enough to occupy your attention even if the movie slowed its tempo, attenuated its gags or paused to give each actor more than a drolly robotic witticism or two.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Daniel’s production honors this to a degree, but the ensemble casting attenuates the effect.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The ride is firm but satisfying, and the structure attenuates even the biggest wheel impacts without much protest and without the basketball-bouncing sound that a C43 sends into the cabin whenever the road turns ugly.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 25 Feb. 2020
• This cocktail of hormones, Datillo adds, also helps attenuate the effects of cortisol (our stress hormone).
  — Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• Rock under the snow naturally emits gamma rays, and the degree to which their signal is attenuated is related to how much water is actually stored in the snowpack.
  — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• Low-frequency sounds attenuate much more slowly than high-frequency sounds, like bird chirps, which travel only short distances.
  — Taylor L. MacHette, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2020
• The system has a dedicated safety module that either stops or slowly attenuates the flow of insulin whenever the system predicts low blood glucose.
  — Boris Kovatchev, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2021
• While many observers hypothesized that wages would stabilize as the shakeout from deregulation attenuated, wages never managed to find a floor in the decade after 9/11.
  — Jeff Friedrich, Slate Magazine, 7 Sep. 2017
• And for his part, Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, had initially tried attenuating publicity altogether, filing to move the case to federal court where it could be arbitrated out of the press glare.
  — Joe Hagan, The Hive, 23 Mar. 2018
• The finding that scientists and engineers are among the most likely to have a pro-science conflict perspective could mean that some of the most influential voices in these public debates might be more likely to fuel the debates than attenuate them.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2011
• Mindfulness gurus often begin from the assumption that our mental capacities have been warped and attenuated by the distractions of our age.
  — Gabriel Winant, The New Republic, 23 May 2018
• Time and again, the reader is reminded how various structural factors attenuate certain disparities, what this or that policy means for the most vulnerable, and so on.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 25 May 2021
• As Matthews explained, the highest Himalayan peaks get incredibly sunny both because there's less atmosphere to attenuate the light and because of their near-equatorial latitude.
  — Maddie Stone, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2019
• So an intervention that targets senescent cells could attenuate other aging processes as well, according to the new paper.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 4 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024