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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

I never understood if the effect was due to my mood or to a general attenuation of the chemical processes inside my skull.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana


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