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Firms raise prices, lower prices, seek this way and that to attenuate the competitive forces that drive every business relentlessly toward profitlessness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He recognized that if the United States were to have any meaningful relationship with Latin America, we needed to attenuate our colonialism, so he pushed through the ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2024

The researchers were able to show that zooplankton species that are tolerant to oxygen deficiency consume sinking particles and thus attenuate the export fluxes of carbon to the deep sea.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

"What else can we be doing to attenuate that risk? Well, to me, it's clear from this research that formulas that have corn syrup solids confer additional risk."

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022

Pistils.—Equaling the number of the petals; attenuate into the short styles.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

"Sound attenuates with distance, so at one metre away, the amplitude is around 108 decibels."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Based on this, they hypothesized that DOP activation by KNT-127 suppresses glutamatergic transmission and attenuates PL-BLA-mediated anxiety-like behavior.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024

Daniel’s production honors this to a degree, but the ensemble casting attenuates the effect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

The challenge for any organism is to keep these rates low, and having two sexes, Dr. Lane reasons, in which only one sex passes its mitochondria along to offspring, attenuates this issue.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2015

By progressive generalisation and abstraction, reasoning attenuates the primitive metaphor; it wears it down as on a grindstone.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

They will test the theocracy to see whether the war has attenuated its strength.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

It’s way too attenuated to fit into the language of the statute, because the tariffs don’t actually “deal with” this threat of fentanyl.

From Slate ● May 29, 2025

The measles virus is attenuated in the MMR vaccine, meaning that it has been altered to produce the appropriate immune response without triggering the disease itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2025

The team had also found in their previous work, that eating high-fat foods attenuated cerebral oxygenation in the pre-frontal cortex, during stress.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Jacob strolled to a nearby driftwood tree that had its roots sticking out like the attenuated legs of a huge, pale spider.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Far from attacking the root causes of global-warming, activists said, recourse to la clim' was merely attenuating the effects of global-warming.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

These cavities, called micro-ring resonators, are intricately designed to resonate at specific frequencies, selectively amplifying the desired wavelengths while attenuating others, thereby achieving enhanced coherence in the emitted light.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2023

Williams’s affecting intensity gives the movie regular shocking jolts of passion, attenuating its otherwise overly easy, overly familiar flow.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

“Our data confirm that the benefits of vaccination include attenuating disease severity in breakthrough cases,” Barchuk says.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 26, 2021

This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik