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Recent Examples of mitigation
The mitigation measures are good up to a certain point, but none of them is a silver bullet if the underlying issues are still there.
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Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
Many communities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts face significant risks of partial inundation in the future if current trends continue and mitigation efforts are not intensified.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
But deadly conditions can exist on in-bounds terrain later in the season, even after ski patrollers have conducted avalanche mitigation on trails.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2024
The report is also critical of common Covid mitigation measures.
—Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 8 Dec. 2024
Many communities along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts face significant risks of partial inundation in the future if current trends continue and mitigation efforts are not intensified.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
But deadly conditions can exist on in-bounds terrain later in the season, even after ski patrollers have conducted avalanche mitigation on trails.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 Dec. 2024
The report is also critical of common Covid mitigation measures.
—Katherine Dillinger, CNN, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mitigation
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For instance, the decrease in price and even physical size of core elements like batteries, processing chips and bandwidth have allowed for the creation of devices that provide previously unfathomable experiences.Jon Kirchner, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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After 12 weeks of yoga training, questionnaires from the participants showed decreases in tension anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, fatigue, confusion, and somatization.Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 9 Dec. 2024
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Many rightsholders surround live coverage with docu titles, which are often engineered merely as promotional vehicles or appeasements to league partners.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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If your rival is evil, compromise—indeed, negotiation itself—becomes appeasement.Christopher Layne, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
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Tall windows, a columned portico, and sculpted reliefs depicting university patriarchs.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Breath work, exercise and journaling are some of the many practices someone can implement or consistent relief, according to the CDC.Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Mitigation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mitigation. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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