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Recent Examples of mitigation
This is immediate risk mitigation, not long-range planning.
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Walter Duke Iii, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Newson’s wildfire mitigation and forest management policy is fairly reasonable.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Putting all of that aside, and allowing for all of the mitigation, Edwards has three wins and 16 points from 24 league games at the helm — a record that would leave any manager under massive pressure.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 May 2026
Hadwick listed her priorities as suspending the state’s gas tax and increasing state spending on wildfire mitigation and fire education prevention programs.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Walter Duke Iii, Sun Sentinel, 4 May 2026
Newson’s wildfire mitigation and forest management policy is fairly reasonable.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Putting all of that aside, and allowing for all of the mitigation, Edwards has three wins and 16 points from 24 league games at the helm — a record that would leave any manager under massive pressure.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 May 2026
Hadwick listed her priorities as suspending the state’s gas tax and increasing state spending on wildfire mitigation and fire education prevention programs.
—William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mitigation
Noun
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This is a significant decrease from more than 4 million acres of hazardous vegetation work completed during the last year of the Biden administration.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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This marked a further decrease compared to Q2, during which revenues fell 3%.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Vogue,
7 May 2026
Noun
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But the median voter isn’t exactly baying for moderation and compromise.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Coffee, when consumed in moderation, typically does not significantly disrupt the body's fluid balance.—
Kristen Gasnick,
Verywell Health,
6 May 2026
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Chinese diplomats and the foreign ministry say that their outreach in the region is aimed at building friendship and assisting countries with poverty alleviation, agricultural and economic development, and law and order.—
Didi Kirsten Tatlow,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2026
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Lillian Wald, the founder of public health nursing, was also a champion of women’s suffrage, poverty alleviation, and racial equality.—
Patrick Smith,
STAT,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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So was the England of 1939, which horrified Forster with its antisemitism and politics of Nazi appeasement.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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The film is a quiet yearning romance alongside an interrogation of Nazi appeasement, class, and duty.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Literature’s loss of cultural authority is due in part to funding cuts, book bannings, and political attacks on higher education, but the overwhelming driver of its diminishment may be our own indifference.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Paradoxically, his quest for totality entailed a diminishment—of size, of scale, of material.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The dais and the crowd stood and cheered in appreciation, and the camera cut to a shot of Tracee Ellis Ross in the audience literally breathing a sigh of relief.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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Hot Girls Pearls Freezable Cooling Jewelry is beautifully engineered to provide instant cooling relief for all your hottest moments.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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“Mitigation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mitigation. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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