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
Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
By Fran Tirado News Youth Activists Release Thousands of Live Crickets at Anti-Trans Conference in London
Throughout the season, you’re disciplined in your habits and attenuated to your instincts.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
Investing in longevity is also set to become a key investment for nations in the attempts to attenuate the economical and societal impacts of an aging population.
—Priya Oberoi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
My principal government contacts — at the departments of state and commerce — had turned over many times and the relationships had become attenuated.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
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Stores and public spaces muted their PAs, and the constant, global clang of tunes that filled the city’s airwaves was attenuated.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
By Fran Tirado News Youth Activists Release Thousands of Live Crickets at Anti-Trans Conference in London
Throughout the season, you’re disciplined in your habits and attenuated to your instincts.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
Investing in longevity is also set to become a key investment for nations in the attempts to attenuate the economical and societal impacts of an aging population.
—Priya Oberoi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
My principal government contacts — at the departments of state and commerce — had turned over many times and the relationships had become attenuated.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
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Guided by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration has moved aggressively the past week to fire probationary workers across federal departments and agencies in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the government.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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An extra set of eyes and ears helps reduce the odds of injury.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
20 Feb. 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
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That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.—
Maria Godoy,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2025
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Instead of following a purely linear project plan, effective project leaders focus on steps to successfully validate the problem – and the solution identified to solve it – while never giving up the drive to meet project milestones and achieve financial objectives.—
John M. Bremen,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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New episodes release Fridays, with a linear airing Sundays at 9 p.m. on Showtime.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, as the comet recedes from the sun, planetary perturbations will make the orbit even more elongated, so the next return to perihelion (of whatever of it is that is still left of it) will be about 600,000 years hence.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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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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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 3 Mar. 2025.
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