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attenuated

[uh-ten-yoo-ey-tid] / əˈtɛn yuˌeɪ tɪd /




















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“If there is persistently poor immunization coverage in a community, there is always a risk that a live, attenuated vaccine virus will revert.”

From Science Magazine

Norm Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Biggs, derided all of this at the time as “the most attenuated, inchoate crime imaginable.”

From New York Times

As of early evening, Washington’s temperatures had hovered for long hours in the lower 50s, and gray skies offered only an attenuated hint of the mere existence of the sun.

From Washington Post

Science has attenuated some of our earliest fears.

From Seattle Times

But other types, like live attenuated viral vaccines, are especially susceptible to changes in temperature.

From Science Magazine