How to Use attrition in a Sentence
attrition
noun- Attrition is high among social workers because of the difficult work and poor pay.
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Of course, fans don’t want to hear about injuries and how football is a game of attrition.
—Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2021
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There’s far less attrition with top hitting prospects, and the Orioles seem to keep finding more of them at every turn.
—Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 26 Oct. 2021
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After the grant expires, as attrition occurs within the department, the city could choose not to fill extra positions.
—Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2021
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Addressing the leaky pipeline meant stopping further attrition.
—Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
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Through pandemic and funding-related attrition, the field of participants was nearly cut in half.
—Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Oct. 2021
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Fury’s strategy involved forward movement and winning by attrition.
—New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
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Retention is key to subscription programs because there will always be natural attrition.
—Erin Weaver, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
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They've also been shown to reduce employee attrition and increase motivation.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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Not surprisingly, customer service staff attrition rates are touching 50% in some industries.
—Ashu Roy, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
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In the next 10 years— There’s gonna be a lot of attrition.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
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What is the best way to curb the tidal wave of attrition?
—Jason Richmond, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
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For the Ukrainian forces, this war is one of attrition.
—Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
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This was a battle of attrition and our pace wore on them a bit.
—Evan Dudley, al, 25 Aug. 2023
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Talked about this over and over as being a war of attrition.
—ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
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The problem is that there are two key variables in a war of attrition.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
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Utah State has a short bench, and short benches don’t win wars of attrition.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
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Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
—Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
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The instructing needs now take up the bulk of his time, as the agency works to plug gaps from attrition with new hires.
—Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
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There could be attrition on the right if those lawmakers take too much heat and walk away.
—Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
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Ukraine is also seeing a high attrition rate, the UK added.
—Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
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More than 120 days later, the two countries appear to be locked in a long war of attrition.
—Jacquelyn Schneider, WSJ, 7 July 2022
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Kellett was the first driver to crash this month, but was able to survive the attrition and complete the 500 miles for the second time.
—Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2022
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The longer the pause between basket and payment, the bigger the attrition rate of customers who drop out.
—Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 10 June 2022
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This is one war of attrition that Russia looks to be losing.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
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The summer offensive could well extend through the end of 2023 and lead to a long and grinding war of attrition.
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
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Perhaps most important for a long-term war of attrition in Ukraine is the cost.
—Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
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In a bloody war of attrition on the eastern front, Russian forces have steadily gained ground.
—Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Long-range attacks have been a feature of the nearly three-year war, where on the front line snaking about 600 miles from northeast to southern Ukraine, the armies have been engaged in a war of attrition.
—Hanna Arhirova and Yehor Konovalov, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
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The nearly three-year-long conflict, which has become a war of attrition, continues to feature long-range strikes as both sides engage in slow, costly advances.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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