attenuate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“If there is persistently poor immunization coverage in a community, there is always a risk that a live, attenuated vaccine virus will revert.”

From Science Magazine

Norm Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Biggs, derided all of this at the time as “the most attenuated, inchoate crime imaginable.”

From New York Times

Some viruses may attenuate the effects of others, she said, but the patterns may not be readily apparent.

From New York Times

They are attenuated or “flattened out,” as the critic Jed Perl once wrote, “by the pressure of their coming into being.”

From Washington Post

Is consent — democracy’s foundational concept — attenuated almost to disappearance if it means merely consenting to Congress consenting to administrative agencies regulating our lives?

From Washington Post