attenuate
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The rigid roof panel helps attenuate the little engine’s effortful ringadingding, which loses its charm after hour four or so.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 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
"Seismic waves attenuate rapidly for distances away from the source, and therefore have limited resolution when they reach the depths of interest."
From Science Daily • May 8, 2024
So it wouldn't be surprising if the relationship between natural harbors and democracy begins to attenuate toward the end of the 20th century.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023
It goes on to say that on the other hand his condition should not be allowed to attenuate the sentence, for that would constitute an odious privilege, an unbearable inequality.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Sawyer, Frederic H.
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