attenuation
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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
Even sisters who share a close bond have usually passed through periods of attenuation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
I never understood if the effect was due to my mood or to a general attenuation of the chemical processes inside my skull.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2023
The attenuation and want of flexibility of contour in the nude are perhaps most conspicuous in his frescoes of classical subjects in the Glyptothek, especially in that representing the contention for the body of Patroclus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
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