Thesaurus / attenuate
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RNA vaccines were developed as an alternative to the standard method of vaccination using attenuated or inactivated microorganisms.
WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT DOUBT - ISSUE 104: HARMONYDAVID KRAKAUERSEPTEMBER 1, 2021NAUTILUSBy 1885, Pasteur would take his ideas one step further, injecting slurried concoctions containing attenuated rabies virus into the stomach of a young boy to save the boy’s life, and inventing the first lab-made vaccine.
AS U.S. COVID-19 DEATHS TOP THE CIVIL WAR’S TOLL, WE'RE REPEATING DISEASE HISTORYRACHEL LANCEAUGUST 14, 2021TIMEMoreover, the chimera was attenuated in mice as compared to the parental mouse-adapted virus, so this would be considered a loss of function.
“WE NEVER CREATED A SUPERVIRUS.” RALPH BARIC EXPLAINS GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH.ROWAN JACOBSENJULY 26, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe Department of Education did this broad survey on prevention programs attempting to attenuate youth substance and crime and aspects like that.
POLICYMAKING IS NOT A SCIENCE (YET) (EP. 405 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMARCH 25, 2021FREAKONOMICSThe future role of the national agencies will be attenuated—becoming more akin to an airport rather than to an airline.
IF ALIENS EXIST, HERE’S HOW WE’LL FIND THEM - ISSUE 97: WONDERMARTIN REES & MARIO LIVIOFEBRUARY 24, 2021NAUTILUSHer flowing dress of white brocade made no attempt to compress, to sustain or to attenuate.
TANTEANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKBut before she could attenuate in any way the crudity of her collapse he gave an impatient jerk which took him to the window.
WHAT MAISIE KNEWHENRY JAMESThe next day he added: "I am still sore vexed about Sherman, but Chenery did his best to attenuate the mischief."
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAREPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMSNevertheless, I had risen to make this answer, the ill grace of which I strove to attenuate by the courteousness of my attitude.
LED ASTRAY AND THE SPHINXOCTAVE FEUILLETInvolucre globular; the imbricated scales coriaceous and appressed at base, attenuate to long stiff points with hooked tips.
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WORDS RELATED TO ATTENUATE
- abate
- attenuate
- clear
- decline
- deliquesce
- deteriorate
- die away
- die on vine
- dim
- diminish
- disappear
- disperse
- dissolve
- droop
- ebb
- etiolate
- evanesce
- evanish
- evaporate
- fag out
- fail
- fall
- flag
- fold
- hush
- languish
- lessen
- melt
- melt away
- moderate
- perish
- peter out
- quiet
- rarefy
- shrivel
- sink
- slack off
- taper
- thin
- tire
- tucker out
- vanish
- wane
- waste away
- weaken
- wilt
- wither
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
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