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“That will attenuate the immediate effect,” he said, “but the pressure builds up.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

He recognized that if the United States were to have any meaningful relationship with Latin America, we needed to attenuate our colonialism, so he pushed through the ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

Until now, structures with isotropic porosity have been applied, but these have the drawback that they exponentially attenuate the incident solar radiation as it travels into the reactor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023

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 ● Jun. 5, 2023

Further to attenuate the value of my admission, another consideration arises, this time prompted not by speculative criticism, but by reverence itself.

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton

"Sound attenuates with distance, so at one metre away, the amplitude is around 108 decibels."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Based on this, they hypothesized that DOP activation by KNT-127 suppresses glutamatergic transmission and attenuates PL-BLA-mediated anxiety-like behavior.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

Daniel’s production honors this to a degree, but the ensemble casting attenuates the effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

This creates a soft halo that attenuates the contrast between the light source and the surrounding darkness.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2017

He hurries or he protracts—he swells notes as of an organ, he attenuates them as of a flute.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Instead, it’s worth looking at things that seem much more attenuated from the facts of this concrete case.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

The team had also found in their previous work, that eating high-fat foods attenuated cerebral oxygenation in the pre-frontal cortex, during stress.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Anolik is less charitable about Babitz’s subsequent work, which she considers to be attenuated and strained, lacking the buzzy exuberance of “Slow Days, Fast Company.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024

On Mars such a place would be even more interesting, because while the visible light necessary for photosynthesis would penetrate to that depth, the germicidal ultraviolet light would be at least partially attenuated.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

What he finds is a conflict pitting human progress, and its attenuating battle for power and domination, against nature.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Far from attacking the root causes of global-warming, activists said, recourse to la clim' was merely attenuating the effects of global-warming.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

"Taken together, our findings reveal the broad influence retinoic acid has in attenuating vitally important immune responses to cancer," said Kang.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

Williams’s affecting intensity gives the movie regular shocking jolts of passion, attenuating its otherwise overly easy, overly familiar flow.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik