abated
Example Sentences
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Once the rain abated, the field did two laps behind a safety car to check conditions before racing began with a standing start.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
I’m referring to buying stocks that are beaten down by tax-loss selling in the last quarter of the year, which far more often than not rebound in January after that selling has abated.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
“This property should have been proactively secured and abated long before a fire made the danger impossible to ignore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
While attacks at the Strait of Hormuz have abated for now, those at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea have turned deadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The frenzy behind the shutters abated very slightly.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
