mitigate
Example Sentences
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“As dependence on China increases, the capacity of foreign governments to mitigate that dependence diminishes,” Rhodium warns.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Or maybe investors need to cushion their portfolios to mitigate the risk of paying too high a price for AI-oriented names.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Cisco is working to mitigate some of these cost headwinds by raising prices.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
“It’s a long time coming,” said Gordon Leon, chair of the Abalone Cove Landslide Abatement District, which is a resident-funded, volunteer-run assessment district that works to mitigate the landslide.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Examples include the rules that govern punctuation, complex forms of agreement, and fine semantic distinctions between uncommon words like militate and mitigate and credible and credulous.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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