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.
—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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While noting that many Arizona cities have drastically reduced their per capita water demand, Goddard argued that cities will eventually need to find water-sharing arrangements with farms so that cities can pay farmers to use their water in dry times.Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Some items that normally retail for upwards of $500 have been reduced to $99 or less.John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 21 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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An incredible bouquet on this Cabernet Franc with violets, tree bark and graphite that has a linear drive with pristine raspberry fruit intertwined with orange blossoms with delicate tannins that come across like fine lace.Cathrine Todd, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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As the media business reshapes, especially linear television, more assets are in play.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Nov. 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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The Gothic romance casts a very elongated shadow of influence over many, many books.Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 21 Aug. 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 3 Dec. 2024.
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