How to Use attenuated in a Sentence

attenuated

adjective

• Moore argued that, as with polio, the best approach would be to use an attenuated virus.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 28 July 2022
• Bars that serve food can resume business — albeit in an attenuated form — and those that don’t cannot.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 2 July 2020
• Some vaccines take the old-fashioned route of using an attenuated virus.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2020
• Those vaccine drops contain an attenuated version of the virus.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 25 July 2022
• But usually, there’s damage, and signals are able to get through but often very attenuated, very weak.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2023
• Doing so will help increase group morale and inflate an attenuated potency.
  — Charlie Winter, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
• 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
• But some other countries vaccinate with live attenuated virus that, on rare occasion, can mutate and spread via vaccinated people, who excrete it through their feces.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
• Dust icily exposes how character can evaporate in the crucible of greed, but the plodding pace makes this ethical exercise feel attenuated and flat by the time the climax rolls around.
  — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
• So, in certain cases, people are being asked to wait two weeks if they were vaccinated with a certain type of Covid-19 vaccine - a live attenuated vaccine.
  — Victoria Forster, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• That connection was too attenuated, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• As of early evening, Washington’s temperatures had hovered for long hours in the lower 50s, and gray skies offered only an attenuated hint of the mere existence of the sun.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2021
• In a standard vaccination, a person receives an attenuated or dead version of a microorganism to spur them to produce antibodies (against, for example, the virus that causes smallpox).
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2010
• In contrast to live attenuated viruses, mRNA vaccines cannot revert to a pathogenic form or mix with circulating pathogens.
  — David Verhoeven, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Sometimes public funding makes an indirect or attenuated contribution to a drug’s invention, say through public funding of basic scientific research.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• More attenuated and open-ended than his abstractions from the 1970s, with their sometimes intensely pulsing color, these canvases are uncommonly gentle, as if sharp edges had been filed off.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
• And that aforementioned plot is a very attenuated, listless creature, telling a murky — in every sense — tale of political intrigue and municipal power struggles that refuses to be resolved or reveal any mysteries by the end.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• Leaving Picasso was an attenuated process, the relationship ending in 1953.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• But Albert Sabin and Koprowski were both — separately — trying to develop oral polio vaccines using live attenuated or weakened viruses.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2 Mar. 2026
• The suggestion that someone was secretly paying Duran was hilarious to anyone with a cursory familiarity with the attenuated state of the journalism industry.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• The shop, aggressively minimal, with a soaring blank-white façade that evokes the attenuated minimalism of an Apple Store, is the chain’s first outside of Japan, where the brand originated in 2022.
  — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2025
• 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