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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

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

Juda insisted the rupiah was undervalued and that economic pressures were "manageable" and will abate once the war ends.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

Harry had not expected Hermione’s anger to abate overnight, and was therefore unsurprised that she communicated mainly by dirty looks and pointed silences the next morning.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

“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

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

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

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

“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

“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

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026

The RSF has verbally accepted a Quad roadmap for peace beginning with a humanitarian truce, but neither side has formally responded and fighting has accelerated rather than abated.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

Something should have happened at that point: the fire should have abated.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Merck, which already lifted its full-year outlook alongside first-quarter results, said this reflected abating foreign-exchange headwinds and expectations of stronger demand in the life-science and electronics markets, together with resilience in its healthcare operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Key details: Healthcare 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

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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