attenuate

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Sometimes public funding makes an indirect or attenuated contribution to a drug’s invention, say through public funding of basic scientific research.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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

But the tone wavers on the way to an attenuated close; the show runs nearly three hours.

From New York Times