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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

Pubescent or hirsute, 5–10° high; leaves ovate or subcordate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous above, minutely pubescent or cinereous beneath; scales lanceolate, attenuate, little exceeding the disk; rays 12–20.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

"Sound attenuates with distance, so at one metre away, the amplitude is around 108 decibels."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Based on this, they hypothesized that DOP activation by KNT-127 suppresses glutamatergic transmission and attenuates PL-BLA-mediated anxiety-like behavior.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

Jane’s quest attenuates as the novel grinds on, months and years falling around her like bodies in a plague year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2021

The challenge for any organism is to keep these rates low, and having two sexes, Dr. Lane reasons, in which only one sex passes its mitochondria along to offspring, attenuates this issue.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2015

I had an opportunity of observing that the purity of the air in no degree attenuates the quantity of false notes lodged in the throats of certain individuals.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

During its short-lived rescue attempt, the U.S. military contacted dozens of ships, encouraging them to break out, and offered reassurances that the Navy, using AI-powered drones, has attenuated the risk of sea-mines planted by Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

It’s way too attenuated to fit into the language of the statute, because the tariffs don’t actually “deal with” this threat of fentanyl.

From Slate ● May 29, 2025

The measles virus is attenuated in the MMR vaccine, meaning that it has been altered to produce the appropriate immune response without triggering the disease itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

The team had also found in their previous work, that eating high-fat foods attenuated cerebral oxygenation in the pre-frontal cortex, during stress.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Their faces, bathed in the attenuated December light from the tall windows, appeared quiet and even faintly reverent.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

What he finds is a conflict pitting human progress, and its attenuating battle for power and domination, against nature.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Far from attacking the root causes of global-warming, activists said, recourse to la clim' was merely attenuating the effects of global-warming.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Commanding from a bunker in Kyiv, General Zaluzhny pursued a strategy that drew the more powerful Russian Army deep into Ukrainian territory, attenuating its supply lines, which he then attacked with sabotage groups and artillery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

These cavities, called micro-ring resonators, are intricately designed to resonate at specific frequencies, selectively amplifying the desired wavelengths while attenuating others, thereby achieving enhanced coherence in the emitted light.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik