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
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
We therefore believe that sleep and dreams serve to attenuate negative emotions and that this process is dysfunctional in people with depression.
From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023
The reader of the following chapters must decide for himself whether the writer of them was carefully manipulating and colouring circumstances he wished to attenuate.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo
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