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

Even if it is given later, he said, “it may be able to abort or significantly attenuate illness.”

From Washington Times

This is because the greater an object’s distance, the more time its light took to reach Earth—and the more attenuated that light will be.

From Scientific American

Graphic, unsparing but never exploitative, “Happening” doesn’t flinch from the bodily horrors of a painful, invasive and sometimes agonizingly attenuated procedure.

From Los Angeles Times