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abate

[uh-bayt] / əˈbeɪt /


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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

Several policymakers, including New York Fed President John Williams, have said they are optimistic inflation will abate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Richard Moody, chief economist at Regions Financial Corp., thinks Warsh could start to lay out the case for a resumption of interest-rate cuts once inflation pressures have begun to abate.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 14, 2026

After a few seconds of tense, gut-feel physics, he felt the force on the tether abate.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“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

“If the conflict abates by Monday sundown, coinciding with the start of the Jewish holiday Purim, the oil price spike could prove short-lived,” Kaneva wrote.

From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026

After the hubbub abates, Hudson says the hardest part will be knowing that it will be time to say goodbye to the character and the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

As the drama reaches catharsis, the rain abates and the skies clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

Salvage teams have been notified and will locate and sink the container when the storm abates.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

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

The frenzied scenes around this clammy building eventually abated, only for Faye Rogers to spark more bedlam with a rampant gold in the 200m individual medley SM10.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

“We were rightly skeptical about this so-called Sell America trade. As tariff concerns eased and recession fears abated, the debasement narrative lost momentum,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, said in commentary shared with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026

“As tariff concerns eased and recession fears abated, the debasement narrative lost momentum,” he added.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Key teammates rallied around him, and in time, the harassment abated.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Second is a recovery in catalysis alongside abating forex headwinds that should let Clariant generate good earnings growth in 2027, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

While the wildfires show no sign of abating soon, the UK Foreign Office is currently not advising against travel to France or Spain.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

“While one supply shock is abating, another one may be around the corner,” economists at the New York-based investment bank, led by Nathan Sheets, wrote in a note on Thursday.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

The fervor to buy SpaceX’s options, despite the extraordinary greed premium, shows no sign of abating.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 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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