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.
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The Perform Flare Legging is only $26 (previously $88), while the ReNew Fleece Oversized Crew is reduced to $29 from $98.Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2024
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The federal government was more successful reducing homelessness among veterans in part because housing and mental health services from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs were strategically paired with resources from HUD, experts told USA TODAY.Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 28 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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The latest corporate update sees a restructure in which the company’s studio and streaming businesses (including HBO) will be separated from its linear channels.Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 28 Dec. 2024
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The wine has a natural grip and is laser-focused and linear.Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 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 5 Jan. 2025.
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