attenuate

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He recognized that if the United States were to have any meaningful relationship with Latin America, we needed to attenuate our colonialism, so he pushed through the ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

The researchers were able to show that zooplankton species that are tolerant to oxygen deficiency consume sinking particles and thus attenuate the export fluxes of carbon to the deep sea.

From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2023

So it wouldn't be surprising if the relationship between natural harbors and democracy begins to attenuate toward the end of the 20th century.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

Yet they also "expect to ratchet down the pace of wage increases and eventually expect it to normalize...We are hearing a great consensus that this is still in catch-up mode and that it will attenuate."

From Reuters • Mar. 6, 2023

Whether malice enters into it or not, this is an accident which has nothing to do with the essence of falsehood; it may aggravate or attenuate it, certainly, but it does not constitute it.

From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Janet, Paul