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adjective

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Recent Examples of attenuate
Adjective
To reach the detector, the team explained, the signal must have traveled through thousands of miles of rock first, which should have attenuated it down to nothing. Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025 Sometimes, adding a caveat to a declarative message serves to attenuate — or even to completely undermine — that message. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 10 June 2025 The problem is that in the constant switchback of perspectives, the play, directed by Phylicia Rashad, grows too hectic and attenuated to maintain a line of conviction. Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025 However, it has been shown in rat studies to reduce nicotine use and attenuate withdrawal symptoms associated with morphine and cocaine. Fernando Montero, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for attenuate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
Verb
  • To reduce the risk of mosquito bites and West Nile virus, health officials recommend using insect repellent and wearing long sleeves and long pants when outdoors, especially during peak mosquito activity at dawn and dusk.
    Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Autos Are an Economic Anchor China’s bold move into electric vehicles began in 2009 as a top-down policy to compete with foreign automakers, cut air pollution and reduce oil imports.
    Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While single mothers and non-traditional families abound in Tsushima’s earlier work, in Wildcat Dome family structures are more attenuated.
    Katie Kitamura, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • That behavior is heavily conditioned, if in an attenuated sense, on the visible strength of enforcement.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • That can be tough to recreate on a theme park ride, which usually demands a linear story arc.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The results were not linear that winter.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • All of the above meant working with prosthetics, like smaller teeth, a fake nose and elongated earlobes, which would emphasize Gladys’s predatory, avian quality.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The mid-rise fit also hits slightly below the belly button for a more elongated look.
    Rylee Johnston, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Attenuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attenuate. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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