How to Use mitigation in a Sentence

mitigation

noun
  • 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
  • The law did say that IDPH was to provide guidance on mitigation strategies.
    Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Which is ironic, given that the IPCC authors state that the economic and social benefits of climate change mitigation will far exceed the costs.
    WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In 2012, the European Union launched the Olive Clima project in the region, testing climate change mitigation and adaptation techniques.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Greener and Nair believe wildfire and weather mitigation will be the most common purpose for grant money.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Dust mitigation Lunar dust, also known as regolith, is a pervasive challenge on the Moon.
    Massimo Comparini, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Beau is Afraid pushes those emotions to the center, without the multiplex-friendly mitigation of Wicker Man thrills.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That process, from preparation to mitigation, forms a circle, according to Gary.
    Josh Snyder, arkansasonline.com, 31 Mar. 2024
  • States have addressed the storms along that corridor with dust mitigation efforts, something more states should undertake, Tong said.
    Phil McCausland, NBC News, 4 May 2023
  • That’s given Serge Dedina hope that long-term mitigation, if not full eradication of the problem, may be at hand.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Rather than banning construction outright, the key is to charge developers a fee and require mitigation to cover the complete costs.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • In many cases those wetlands would now be exempt from protection and mitigation.
    Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In recent years some states have amended laws and regulations to lower the mitigation thresholds.
    Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • According to the Washington Post, Hawaiian Electric was aware that a power shut-off was an useful strategy, but didn’t include the step in it in its fire mitigation plans.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Nassi and the research reiterate many of the same approaches to mitigations.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024

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