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Genesis brand engineers spend some coin to attenuate engine and mechanical noise, vibration and harshness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

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

Until now, structures with isotropic porosity have been applied, but these have the drawback that they exponentially attenuate the incident solar radiation as it travels into the reactor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 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

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 Paul Janet

"Sound attenuates with distance, so at one metre away, the amplitude is around 108 decibels."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Based on this, they hypothesized that DOP activation by KNT-127 suppresses glutamatergic transmission and attenuates PL-BLA-mediated anxiety-like behavior.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

Jane’s quest attenuates as the novel grinds on, months and years falling around her like bodies in a plague year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

The challenge for any organism is to keep these rates low, and having two sexes, Dr. Lane reasons, in which only one sex passes its mitochondria along to offspring, attenuates this issue.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2015

In any case, the realization of the fact attenuates hostility.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

Instead, it’s worth looking at things that seem much more attenuated from the facts of this concrete case.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Anolik is less charitable about Babitz’s subsequent work, which she considers to be attenuated and strained, lacking the buzzy exuberance of “Slow Days, Fast Company.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

The live attenuated virus strains were originally developed as a vaccine by Professor Ooi Eng Eong's group from Duke-NUS' Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Programme.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

Like Virginia Tucker before her, Dorothy Vaughan now presided over an appendix, still attached to the research operation but whose function had attenuated over time.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Far from attacking the root causes of global-warming, activists said, recourse to la clim' was merely attenuating the effects of global-warming.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

With this setup, the experts have succeeded in significantly reducing heat transfer through sensors and electronics, and in attenuating interference signals and noise with several innovations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024

“Our data confirm that the benefits of vaccination include attenuating disease severity in breakthrough cases,” Barchuk says.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 26, 2021

Sabin spent years weakening or attenuating the poliovirus by growing it repeatedly in different animals and in cells in the laboratory.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2021

This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik