as in to reduce
to diminish the price or value of
an investment attenuated by significant inflation over the years
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Recent Examples of attenuate
John Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
These challenges can be attenuated through this journey toward harmonizing a consumer-centric healthcare organization with the digital transformation.
—Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
But together the three wives managed to hatch out a pack of boys, the Kennedy Third Gen, whom Callahan depicts as morally and intellectually attenuated, coddled, entitled, reckless and as ruinous to women as their fathers and grandfather.
—Nina Burleigh, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
What scientists do know, Grundmann said, is that aloe vera gel contains glucomannan, a carbohydrate that covers the skin, attenuating an inflammatory response.
—Karla Marie Sanford, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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And that when a person attenuates to, or listens to a specific sound, their brain starts to amplify that sound.
—John Werner, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
These challenges can be attenuated through this journey toward harmonizing a consumer-centric healthcare organization with the digital transformation.
—Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
But together the three wives managed to hatch out a pack of boys, the Kennedy Third Gen, whom Callahan depicts as morally and intellectually attenuated, coddled, entitled, reckless and as ruinous to women as their fathers and grandfather.
—Nina Burleigh, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
What scientists do know, Grundmann said, is that aloe vera gel contains glucomannan, a carbohydrate that covers the skin, attenuating an inflammatory response.
—Karla Marie Sanford, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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Surgery can benefit from real-time AI explanations and XR visualizations to reduce patient anxiety, while oncology can simplify complex treatment plans for better decision making.Alon Zuckerman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Light pollution significantly reduces visibility of meteors.Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Doing so will help increase group morale and inflate an attenuated potency.Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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The traditional means of video-game storytelling—cutscenes, voice-over narration, and conversations with other characters—are present only in the most attenuated, enigmatic forms.Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Fit and situation are everything, which is why the draft order and first-year success are never linear in the NBA.Nick Crain, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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For the 2024 installment of perhaps our least-festive (or at least, our most tedious) annual tradition, IndieWire has again ranked every linear TV channel by their calendar-year viewership.Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
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Another catchy song with elongated, ethereal harmonies that capture the temptation of infidelity.Bryan West, The Tennessean, 18 Apr. 2024
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Worm lizards are well adapted for underground life, with elongated bodies, reduced or no limbs, rudimentary eyes and tough, ring-like scales.Newsweek, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
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Some feature high waists to elongate legs or pleats to conjure old-school élan worthy of Cary Grant.Charlie Teasdale, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2023
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The fragment, which was cleaved from its fecal parent with a pair of wire cutters, resembles a chunk of light-colored concrete with darker, elongate inclusions that Chin recognizes as bone.Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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“Attenuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attenuate. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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