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Firms raise prices, lower prices, seek this way and that to attenuate the competitive forces that drive every business relentlessly toward profitlessness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

The researchers were able to show that zooplankton species that are tolerant to oxygen deficiency consume sinking particles and thus attenuate the export fluxes of carbon to the deep sea.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

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

Pistils.—Equaling the number of the petals; attenuate into the short styles.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

This creates a soft halo that attenuates the contrast between the light source and the surrounding darkness.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2017

Sloth is the weight of matter, in itself inert, within us, and this sloth, while it professes to preserve us by economizing our forces, in reality attenuates us and reduces us to nothing.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

Instead, it’s worth looking at things that seem much more attenuated from the facts of this concrete case.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

And then Michael is such a craftsman that every part of everything is studied and controlled and carefully attenuated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025

The live attenuated virus strains were originally developed as a vaccine by Professor Ooi Eng Eong's group from Duke-NUS' Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Programme.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

On Mars such a place would be even more interesting, because while the visible light necessary for photosynthesis would penetrate to that depth, the germicidal ultraviolet light would be at least partially attenuated.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

With this setup, the experts have succeeded in significantly reducing heat transfer through sensors and electronics, and in attenuating interference signals and noise with several innovations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024

“Our data confirm that the benefits of vaccination include attenuating disease severity in breakthrough cases,” Barchuk says.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 26, 2021

Sabin spent years weakening or attenuating the poliovirus by growing it repeatedly in different animals and in cells in the laboratory.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2021

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