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
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
But if people just send their AI agents out to do their shopping, booking, and buying for them, brands may find their direct access to the consumer diminished and attenuated.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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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
But if people just send their AI agents out to do their shopping, booking, and buying for them, brands may find their direct access to the consumer diminished and attenuated.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
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Roofing contractors said good roofs with years of life left are being replaced ahead of schedule to allow insurers to reduce their risk going forward.Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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Opened in 1956, Sunnyvale High School, the city’s second public high school, worked to achieve collaboration between students and educators, aiming to reduce violence and enrich the curriculum during the interracial tension that marked the 1960s and ’70s.Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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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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The causal link is too attenuated, and the size of the adjustment is too small, to move the needle in a $100 Trillion credit market.George Calhoun, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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The company reported in August that its operating income from its linear networks fell 6% to $966 million in its third fiscal quarter, from $1 billion in the same quarter in 2023.Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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People — especially young folks — are getting less of their news and political information through linear television networks and more of it via digital outlets including social media and podcasts.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Going in a head-to-toe, monochromatic OOTD creates an elongated look while punctuating a palette of neutrals with a pop of burgundy is also a fun way to play the trend.Jane Hanson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Though the elongated, horizontal silhouette is undoubtedly a classic, the east-west style has a flirty edge, perhaps thanks to its smaller size or ability to complete an evening look.Angela Law, refinery29.com, 29 Feb. 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 21 Nov. 2024.
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