attenuate

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“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

This device can work in the story’s favor, with one chapter complementing the next, or it can attenuate the tension with extraneous logistical details.

From New York Times

As of early evening, Washington’s temperatures had hovered for long hours in the lower 50s, and gray skies offered only an attenuated hint of the mere existence of the sun.

From Washington Post

Indeed, what McCarthy-Jones calls “counterdominant spite” favors equality and fairness and “encourages us to support ideas and ideologies that attenuate hierarchies, such as universal human rights, multiculturalism, and diversity.”

From Washington Post