How to Use mitigation in a Sentence

mitigation

noun
  • As a board member the next step is to ask for a mitigation plan.
    Betsy Atkins, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Our mitigation of risk is working in the genres that people know us for.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Warehouses that fall short of the goal must pay a mitigation fee, which the air district could invest in clean air projects.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Risk mitigation has come a long way from its early days.
    Jim Foerster, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • So, this is both about upside and about risk mitigation.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Most fleeces are also porous enough to let breezes in, which is great for sweat mitigation but bad for comfort amidst 30-mph winds.
    Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The law did say that IDPH was to provide guidance on mitigation strategies.
    Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • The mitigation proposed for the project is a beach access trail with either a switchback ramp or a concrete stairway over the bluffs and down to the beach between 7th and 8th streets.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
  • What's next: New Orleans' officials are in the process of making the city's first-ever heat mitigation plan.
    Kavya Beheraj, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • The state’s clean air board says that enteric mitigation measures will likely be needed to achieve the goal.
    Josh Ulick, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The Phoenix area has made investments in heat mitigation.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Shady Park will now work with the city to obtain the building permits needed to add the sound mitigation measures so concerts can return.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And the key part that is missing from Project Texas’ mitigation strategy is control of the algorithm.
    ABC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The city’s hazard mitigation plan makes scant mention of wildfire smoke.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 9 June 2023
  • More than 250 acres of wetlands were completely lost in the two years following that bill due to the state no longer requiring mitigation.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024
  • But even with these mitigation efforts, there has been a financial toll on the Parks Department.
    Vanessa Swales, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024
  • Last year, high case counts threatened progress on the budget, and there were heated fights over masking and other mitigation measures.
    Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • This risk, its possible outcomes and their mitigation have long been of interest to me.
    Rick N. Tumlinson, Scientific American, 15 Jan. 2024
  • So, if you’re concerned, avoid gels altogether or use some of the mitigation strategies above.
    Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Getting out while there's still time In some cases, mitigation strategies simply won't cut it.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Environmental concerns, and plans for mitigation efforts, have kept the project in the planning stages, off and on, for roughly 12 years.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Colleges and universities still retreat to the strictest mitigation measures at the faintest hint that the pandemic could make a comeback.
    Noah Rothman, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Wiesel said the Wallis was fortunate to have a mitigation and restoration company at the venue within hours of learning about flooding in the building.
    Steven Vargasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • For Shanahan, special teams is an area of the game that doesn’t require innovation, but rather mitigation.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 3 June 2024
  • The developer, for its part, said its mitigation package was more than fair and that the proposal was consistent with the state’s coastal policies.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
  • Only a third of the 194 countries that signed the Paris Agreement reference food-system mitigation measures in their climate goals.
    Cara Korte, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Artists could receive grants through this program to do work on issues like social justice and climate mitigation.
    Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One of the pioneers of video mitigation is Doug Passon, a lawyer in Scottsdale, Ariz., who began making them in 2005 as a public defender.
    Karen Zraick, New York Times, 23 June 2023
  • That mitigation may come in the form of kinetic or passive protective measures that are put in place before and during a visit.
    Donald J. Mihalek, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • State officials say those wildfire mitigation costs now make up about 13% of customers’ monthly electric bills.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024

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