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attenuation

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


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The latest readings of consumer inflation and the Fed's preferred gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, have shown an attenuation, but levels remain well above the two-percent target.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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

Even sisters who share a close bond have usually passed through periods of attenuation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

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

The medical man said, that in all his practice he never had known soul and body keep together in such utter attenuation.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson


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