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

"We experimentally determined the seismic wave attenuation characteristics, parameters for ascertaining the softness of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, under high temperature and pressure using our short-period oscillation generation technology," explains Prof. Yoshino.

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

Here was Archie’s secret, here 266 was the woman, and more than that—though I have need here of every manageable attenuation of language—with the first look, he had already entered himself as rival.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis