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Recent Examples of attenuate
Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2025
If my hometown remains in Russian hands, along with other Ukrainian territories currently under Kremlin control, the erasure of our culture will continue, and with each passing year, Ukrainian identity will attenuate and vanish.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
Storm suggests hopefully that a planetary crisis, such as climate change, might attenuate nationalism.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Such radio waves, at the extremely high frequency of 230 gigahertz, also pass through air largely unimpeded, although atmospheric water vapor does attenuate and delay them somewhat in the last few miles of their 55-million-year journey from the periphery of M87* to our radio telescopes on Earth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
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Consuming a meal or a carb-containing meal with keto supplements may attenuate their effects.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2025
If my hometown remains in Russian hands, along with other Ukrainian territories currently under Kremlin control, the erasure of our culture will continue, and with each passing year, Ukrainian identity will attenuate and vanish.
—Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
Storm suggests hopefully that a planetary crisis, such as climate change, might attenuate nationalism.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Such radio waves, at the extremely high frequency of 230 gigahertz, also pass through air largely unimpeded, although atmospheric water vapor does attenuate and delay them somewhat in the last few miles of their 55-million-year journey from the periphery of M87* to our radio telescopes on Earth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
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Ars Video The technique reduced the lag between the patient’s brain signals and the resultant audio from the eight seconds the group had achieved previously to one second.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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Not having injured Jalen Suggs, their most disruptive perimeter defender, reduces their volume of transition scoring opportunities.—
Josh Robbins,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Zostavax is a live attenuated vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus.—
Fran Kritz,
Verywell Health,
10 Apr. 2025
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That connection was too attenuated, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court.—
Adam Liptak,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Who knows where the progress that Haiti was making on its own linear path would have taken it?—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Comcast late last year announced plans to spin off its cable outlets, including the progressive cable channel, as the company, like many others, takes major losses on its linear television assets and looks to retool itself around digital and streaming offerings.—
Dominick Mastrangelo,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Despite looking and feeling like one elongated shot, the episode was actually filmed in four chunks since production could only shoot for about 90 minutes a day.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
26 Mar. 2025
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Finally, the shape of Earth's orbit can change slightly, from more elongated to less elongated (our average distance from the sun doesn't change).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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The tusk, which is actually an elongated tooth, is mainly found in males and can grow up to 10 feet long.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Chaos is a constant for the outdoor winter sport with single-elimination playoffs that relies on the bounces of an elongated sphere.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Attenuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attenuate. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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