attrition

Example Sentences

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They have stepped forward in this championship, but with each Irish try and each moment of Irish attrition you were reminded of the distance Scotland have left to travel.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

“Attrition is a fact of war, and we do not have attrition built into our calculus,” said retired Air Force Col.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

On the West Coast, the San Francisco Fed reported, some companies have been shrinking their payrolls either through layoffs or attrition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

"We're already seeing a significant drop in applications for nursing degree programmes – over 30% reduction compared to five years ago. We've seen attrition rates from nursing programmes which we've never seen before," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Marine General Victor Krulak showed the secretary a detailed report he’d written that seemed to prove mathematically that Westmoreland’s war of attrition was doomed.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin