attenuate

Example Sentences

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“If there is persistently poor immunization coverage in a community, there is always a risk that a live, attenuated vaccine virus will revert.”

From Science Magazine

Norm Pattis, a lawyer for Mr. Biggs, derided all of this at the time as “the most attenuated, inchoate crime imaginable.”

From New York Times

A play-like trudge through seesawing power dynamics, bursts of violence, perpetual gloom and a ludicrously attenuated finale, “The Apology” could have doubled its tension by halving its running time.

From New York Times

The photograph served as a testament to the annihilating inhumanity of slavery, and in some attenuated fashion, that is also how “Emancipation” can be appreciated.

From New York Times

With their link to the drama severed, and the drama in any case attenuated, the songs cease to function as they normally do in musical theater and collapse into a concert.

From New York Times