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abate

[uh-beyt] / 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

It was bitter cold when we arrived, and the wind did not abate.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

“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

Many economists expect stronger economic growth next year, especially if anxiety about fast-changing tariffs abates.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

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

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

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

The frenzy behind the shutters abated very slightly.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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

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

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

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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