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attenuation

[uh-ten-yoo-ey-shuhn] / əˌtɛn yuˈeɪ ʃən /


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During the spring, he said Amazon hadn’t yet “seen any attenuation of demand,” and he touted Amazon’s vast network of merchants who he said could sell different items at a wide variety of prices.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

I never understood if the effect was due to my mood or to a general attenuation of the chemical processes inside my skull.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2023

This layer appears to glide over a weaker region below called the asthenosphere, characterized by high seismic attenuation and low shear wave velocity.

From Science Daily • Sep. 27, 2023

So the idea that there would be some attenuation of the correlation of Europeans and forms of democratic political institutions fits with our commonsense view of of the world.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

It is the earliest form of the surrender of the use of force in favor of co-operation—the first attenuation of the tendency to act on impulse.

From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman




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