attenuate

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We therefore believe that sleep and dreams serve to attenuate negative emotions and that this process is dysfunctional in people with depression.

From Scientific American

The weakened pathogens in live attenuated vaccines have the remote possibility of reverting back to their full pathogenic form or mixing with other circulating pathogens and becoming new vaccine-resistant ones.

From Salon

There are moments when these ravishments come close to the touristic, though this is attenuated by the filmmakers’ unexpected use of the boxy Academy ratio.

From New York Times

It seems to me unlikely that civilization can survive really existing capitalism and the sharply attenuated democracy that goes along with it.

From Salon

"Even accepting GM's theory as true, the chain of causation between FCA's bribes and GM's injury is still too attenuated," the 6th Circuit wrote.

From Reuters