soften
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Still, economists caution that underlying domestic demand is weak and growth is likely to soften across the board in March as the holiday boost fades.
Higher oil prices push up headline inflation, soften growth and narrow policy space.
The company shifted production from the Colorado facility employing thousands of workers ahead of the labor action to soften the impact.
For most of the past two years, officials cut rates when the labor market showed signs of softening, confident enough in the trajectory of inflation to buy insurance against a downturn that hadn’t yet arrived.
As I peered up at him, his expression softened.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
