How to Use attenuator in a Sentence

attenuator

noun
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  • The best part is that the results are the same when the attenuator is put into the circuit.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • The barrier that Huang hit was supposed to have a crash attenuator, which crumples to absorb some of the impact.
    — Jack Stewart, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The attenuator truck was behind a paint striping crew that was working on the interstate.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Without the protection of the crash attenuator, the driver died.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 Feb. 2020
  • And with the too-late carnage that stemmed from teammate Spencer Pigot’s smash into the pit lane attenuator on Lap 196, maybe Sato took advantage of a small bout of luck coming home, too.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The report does not assign blame but says that Huang had received warnings to place his hands back on the wheel about 15 minutes prior to the crash, and that the car steered itself into the broken highway attenuator.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 10 June 2018
  • This makes them inert and nothing more than sound attenuators.
    — Josh Jacquot, Car and Driver, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Slate hit an attenuator truck, which is designed to absorb high-impact collisions in work zones.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Tesla said the reason the crash was so severe was because the attenuator had been crushed in a prior accident without being replaced.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Truck veers right, hits attenuators on right shoulder and loses control.
    — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
  • However, the crash attenuator that the Tesla impacted had been damaged a week prior, when another car hit the barrier at the same spot.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2018
  • After several nodes of interference, the light would travel through a series of attenuators, which cut the intensity of the light down slightly.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 June 2017
  • The reason this crash was so severe is because the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier ... had been crushed in a prior accident without being replaced.
    — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The damage likely made the attenuator ineffective and contributed to Huang’s death.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 7 June 2018
  • His car caused extensive damage to the pit attenuator, used to minimize damage during collisions.
    — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The resulting damage made the attenuator ineffective and likely contributed to Huang's death.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
  • Galilee desperately needs a multimillion-dollar wave attenuator, which decreases wave height and energy to protect docks from storm damage.
    — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Detectives said a vehicle carrying three people ran into an impact attenuator on Interstate 35E at the Northwest Highway exit, causing the vehicle to roll over several times.
    — Jared Weber, Dallas News, 28 Nov. 2020
  • Investigators have previously said the attenuator, overseen by the California Department of Transportation, had been damaged in a previous incident and had not been reset.
    — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2018

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