weaken

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A slower pace of rate increases, Powell has said, could help the Fed achieve a tricky feat: Weaken the economy enough to tame inflation, without undermining it so much as to cause a deep recession.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Powell reiterated that the Fed still hopes to pull off a tricky feat: Weaken the economy enough to tame inflation, without undermining it so much as to cause a deep recession.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

As the author of the article “More Than a Century of Efforts to Weaken Life Insurance Reserves,” he can compare today’s captive-reinsurance phenomenon with other skirt-the-rules tactics dating all the way back to 1863.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2015

One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit.

From Time Magazine Archive

My lords, you will not let her troubled mind Weaken your trust in me?

From Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet by Dargan, Olive Tilford