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abate

[uh-bayt] / əˈbeɪt /


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Crews spent days vacuuming the pool bottom after dumping gallon jugs of hydrogen peroxide into the water to abate the blooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

This isn’t going to abate as an issue over time, either.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026

Downtown businesses were already struggling when people started buying more retail goods online, a trend that didn’t abate when lockdowns ended, Schuster said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

The positive side: several indicators show the selling in Big Tech is likely to abate soon.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Maybe then the sick feeling in Jinjoo’s stomach would abate.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

“This year, investors have been more sensitive to Shopify’s cost management and margin dilution, and we believe today’s print largely abates those concerns, and establishes an upward trajectory for FCF margins going forward,” Shao wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Under the current policy, the city abates 90 percent of property taxes on conversions that set aside at least 25 percent of units as affordable housing.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

Analysts expect their share prices to remain under pressure until the pace of redemptions abates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Then, in the depths of a recession, debts are settled, panic abates, green shoots appear, and banks begin lending more easily again — fueling a recovery that enables a new upswing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

The wind abates, the sun comes out, the trail across is flat—frozen seawater—and the dogs are well rested.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

I’m referring to buying stocks that are beaten down by tax-loss selling in the last quarter of the year, which far more often than not rebound in January after that selling has abated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

“This property should have been proactively secured and abated long before a fire made the danger impossible to ignore.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

While attacks at the Strait of Hormuz have abated for now, those at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea have turned deadly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A note from Oxford Economics pointed to improving dynamics in March after winter storms abated.

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

Then she picked me up in her arms and the terror abated for a while.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

And so-called core prices, which exclude the volatile food and energy categories, rose by 0.2% in July from the previous month, a relatively modest increase offering hope that broader price pressures could be abating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Amid concerns over how officials are pursuing suspects, broader worries about wildfires are far from abating.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Key details: Health-care providers created about half of the new jobs in June, a big trend in the past two years that shows no sign of abating.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Interest in options is at the highest level in market history with no signs of abating.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

When there had been no sign of her behaviour abating after a fortnight or so, I think you will understand that I started to become a little impatient.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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