attenuation

Example Sentences

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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

A crux of the question confronting the judge is the principle of attenuation, how to get an untainted confession after a coerced one.

From New York Times

The strongest stories — “Austin,” “Vines,” “Rhinebeck” and “Silhouettes” — are shot through with almost subliminal strangeness and build toward endings of uncanny attenuation, endings worthy of Raymond Carver in his later, elegiac mode.

From New York Times

Bond, in Higgs’ view, was Fleming’s response to the attenuation of England’s colonial might, its weakening global pulse.

From Los Angeles Times

But Sound Transit contractors mistakenly installed some at 25 to 100 feet longer than specified — and the longer the cables, with more bends and kinks, the greater the likelihood of data attenuation and loss.

From Seattle Times