attenuation
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During the spring, he said Amazon hadn’t yet “seen any attenuation of demand,” and he touted Amazon’s vast network of merchants who he said could sell different items at a wide variety of prices.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026
The Williams Flats plume was so thick that the light attenuation was only 10 percent of what it was outside of the plume.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2023
This layer appears to glide over a weaker region below called the asthenosphere, characterized by high seismic attenuation and low shear wave velocity.
From Science Daily • Sep. 27, 2023
So the idea that there would be some attenuation of the correlation of Europeans and forms of democratic political institutions fits with our commonsense view of of the world.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023
You must accept the whole or reject the whole; attenuation does but enfeeble, and amputation mutilate.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
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