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abatement

[uh-beyt-muhnt] / əˈbeɪt mənt /


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Mediation tends to produce short-term crisis abatement at the cost of long-term stability because agreements reached under third-party pressure often fail to resolve the underlying conditions responsible for conflict in the first place.

From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026

City officials even offered the warehouse owner, Dalfen Industrial, 10 years’ worth of tax abatement, totaling about $20 million, if they agreed not to sell their warehouse to DHS.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

“Once you have a carbon price into the mid-teens, and certainly into the twenties, that’s a very healthy level. You can drive a lot of abatement with a carbon price at those levels.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

New York, Washington and Boston have property tax abatement programs, for example.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

The research was part of a study examining lead abatement methods, and all families involved were black.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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