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attenuation

[uh-ten-yoo-ey-shuhn] / əˌtɛn juˈeɪ ʃən /


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The latest readings of consumer inflation and the Fed's preferred gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, have shown an attenuation, but levels remain well above the two-percent target.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

During the spring, he said Amazon hadn’t yet “seen any attenuation of demand,” and he touted Amazon’s vast network of merchants who he said could sell different items at a wide variety of prices.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026

The Williams Flats plume was so thick that the light attenuation was only 10 percent of what it was outside of the plume.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2023

This difference in water content between the two layers constituting the LAB can explain the sharp velocity drops as well as the near constant attenuation observed over a wide frequency range in the asthenosphere.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023

The other was one of the tallest and thinnest men ever seen outside a show--a man whose very clothes, his worn jacket and shrunken knickerbockers, had the air of sharing his attenuation.

From Laid up in Lavender by Stanley J. Weyman




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