abate
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This isn’t going to abate as an issue over time, either.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2026
He said the correct Fed policy decision would be to stay on hold until these contradictory signals abate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Downtown businesses were already struggling when people started buying more retail goods online, a trend that didn’t abate when lockdowns ended, Schuster said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Tractor Supply is dialing up promotions and trimming prices on popular items after concluding consumer belt-tightening won’t abate anytime soon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The stress among private-credit borrowers is occurring while the U.S. economy is performing well, a possible warning sign that losses could jump sharply if growth abates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“This year, investors have been more sensitive to Shopify’s cost management and margin dilution, and we believe today’s print largely abates those concerns, and establishes an upward trajectory for FCF margins going forward,” Shao wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Under the current policy, the city abates 90 percent of property taxes on conversions that set aside at least 25 percent of units as affordable housing.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Then, in the depths of a recession, debts are settled, panic abates, green shoots appear, and banks begin lending more easily again — fueling a recovery that enables a new upswing.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
“All alike say ‘Have no convention at this crisis!’...‘Wait until the war excitement abates.’
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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“This property should have been proactively secured and abated long before a fire made the danger impossible to ignore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
“We were rightly skeptical about this so-called Sell America trade. As tariff concerns eased and recession fears abated, the debasement narrative lost momentum,” Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, said in commentary shared with MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 28, 2026
“As tariff concerns eased and recession fears abated, the debasement narrative lost momentum,” he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The Greenspan Fed pledged to provide adequate financial liquidity, and the panic abated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
In the late afternoon sun, tall trees growing along the bank cast long shadows over the starting stalls and the boats, but the heat had not abated appreciably.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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Amid concerns over how officials are pursuing suspects, broader worries about wildfires are far from abating.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
“While one supply shock is abating, another one may be around the corner,” economists at the New York-based investment bank, led by Nathan Sheets, wrote in a note on Thursday.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Samsung shares have rallied 150% so far this year with Korea’s army of retail investors speculating on further gains as the supply=demand imbalance in memory chips shows no sign of abating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Interest in options is at the highest level in market history with no signs of abating.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
It was always there, stark and steady, rarely abating.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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