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
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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
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Adjective
But two years after its last modest fundraise, the company says its financial position is still strong and that the revenues from the commercial project help attenuate its cash burn.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
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Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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And drivers can reduce the risk of their cars being hit.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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That behavior is heavily conditioned, if in an attenuated sense, on the visible strength of enforcement.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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With the current administration's focus on securing domestic energy, materials, and recapturing semiconductor production market share this rally will not rally in a linear upward direction.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
14 Oct. 2025
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The network then hooked up (some of) its linear feed and plugged it in to HBO Max for a streaming effort called CNN Max.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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 17 Oct. 2025.
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