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attenuation

[uh-ten-yoo-ay-shuhn] / əˌtɛn juˈeɪ ʃən /


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With Waller, that makes at least five officials on the committee who have said they are ready to raise interest rates if inflation data does not show attenuation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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 John Henry Cardinal Newman


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