How to Use attrition in a Sentence

attrition

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  • Attrition is high among social workers because of the difficult work and poor pay.
  • The city expects attrition will whittle the number back down to the current levels within a few years.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Slashing the police force through attrition, which some councilors assumed would take years, instead took months.
    — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • The individual phase is a classic foothold attrition challenge.
    — Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Despite the high number of casualties, there does not appear to be any end in sight to the war, validating early concerns that this would be a war of attrition.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The attrition in compact cars that attended SUV’s ascendance weeded out the poseurs.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The most pressing needs are at offensive line and linebacker, though some recent attrition has also thinned out a secondary that underperformed in 2021.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • There’s also the national issue of attrition, as the larger, older generation ages out of the workforce, which is something Harris pointed out.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In the next 10 years— There’s gonna be a lot of attrition.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • What is the best way to curb the tidal wave of attrition?
    — Jason Richmond, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • For the Ukrainian forces, this war is one of attrition.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • This was a battle of attrition and our pace wore on them a bit.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Talked about this over and over as being a war of attrition.
    — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The problem is that there are two key variables in a war of attrition.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Utah State has a short bench, and short benches don’t win wars of attrition.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Over the next dozen years, Haitian rebels and French soldiers waged a vicious war of attrition.
    — Matthew Brown, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The instructing needs now take up the bulk of his time, as the agency works to plug gaps from attrition with new hires.
    — Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 12 Aug. 2022
  • There could be attrition on the right if those lawmakers take too much heat and walk away.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
  • Ukraine is also seeing a high attrition rate, the UK added.
    — Bloomberg News, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • More than 120 days later, the two countries appear to be locked in a long war of attrition.
    — Jacquelyn Schneider, WSJ, 7 July 2022
  • Kellett was the first driver to crash this month, but was able to survive the attrition and complete the 500 miles for the second time.
    — Rob Peeters, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2022
  • The longer the pause between basket and payment, the bigger the attrition rate of customers who drop out.
    — Ozan Ozerk, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • This is one war of attrition that Russia looks to be losing.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • The summer offensive could well extend through the end of 2023 and lead to a long and grinding war of attrition.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • Perhaps most important for a long-term war of attrition in Ukraine is the cost.
    — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Seattle's attrition rate has over doubled in the last two years.
    — Ryan Young, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Though the conflict dragged on through four years of a brutal war of attrition, the impact of the blockade was dramatic.
    — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Auburn safety Cayden Bridges recovered it in the end zone to end a battle of attrition on the Plains.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2022
  • For all the attrition, the unit did much better against expectations in the 2-4 finish than the offense did.
    — Kenny Rosarion, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Many Ukrainian men feel caught between the threat of Russia and a grinding war of attrition.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 June 2024

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