mitigating

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Float adjustments will cap a low-float company’s weight in the Nasdaq-100, mitigating immediate effects on index funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

They added that Brazil will “adopt any and every measure” of mitigating damage to Brazil’s economy, jobs, and income.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Smith said there had been mitigating factors and he had reduced the £1.853m fine by a third as the company had entered an early guilty plea.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Ceesay got in some mitigating backstory for his otherwise despicable, cyborg-armed Yutani loyalist.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Just “running out of fuel, sir” at the end of a sentence, preceded by the mitigating “ah.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell