as in to reduce
to diminish the price or value of
an investment attenuated by significant inflation over the years
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Recent Examples of attenuate
Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
By attenuating wave energy, the reefs help create a calmer environment near the shoreline, minimizing erosion.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Stores and public spaces muted their PAs, and the constant, global clang of tunes that filled the city’s airwaves was attenuated.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
By Fran Tirado News Youth Activists Release Thousands of Live Crickets at Anti-Trans Conference in London
Throughout the season, you’re disciplined in your habits and attenuated to your instincts.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Noise levels attenuate with distance, and most microphones struggle to distinguish drone noise from ambient sounds at distances greater than approximately 100 meters.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
By attenuating wave energy, the reefs help create a calmer environment near the shoreline, minimizing erosion.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
Stores and public spaces muted their PAs, and the constant, global clang of tunes that filled the city’s airwaves was attenuated.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
By Fran Tirado News Youth Activists Release Thousands of Live Crickets at Anti-Trans Conference in London
Throughout the season, you’re disciplined in your habits and attenuated to your instincts.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for attenuate
Verb
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Or has your life together reduced him to, as in your letter, a list of maddening attributes?—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2025
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According to Caltrans, the speed limit in the construction zone was reduced to 55 mph to protect construction crews and motorists.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacramento Bee,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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That's why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that anyone vaccinated before 1968 get at least one dose of the live attenuated vaccine.—
Maria Godoy,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2025
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That connection was too attenuated, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court.—
Adam Liptak,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike other media companies that own linear TV networks such as Paramount, Disney, Comcast and WBD, Fox does not own or operate a prominent SVOD service.—
Brad Adgate,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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IndieWire moderators will interview talent from shows across Disney’s linear and streaming portfolio.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Sawfish, related to rays, skates and sharks, are named for their elongated, flat snout that contains a row of teeth on each side.—
Curt Anderson,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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Lenses that are less spherical and more elongated, in contrast, can produce a similar phenomenon called an Einstein Cross, in which four distinct images are produced around the lensing galaxy.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Some feature high waists to elongate legs or pleats to conjure old-school élan worthy of Cary Grant.—
Charlie Teasdale,
WSJ,
21 Nov. 2023
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The fragment, which was cleaved from its fecal parent with a pair of wire cutters, resembles a chunk of light-colored concrete with darker, elongate inclusions that Chin recognizes as bone.—
Karen Wright,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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“Attenuate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/attenuate. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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