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thinning

noun as in attrition

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"They went on to give her blood thinning injections, and she started vomiting up blood again," Rachael said.

From BBC

All the Dodgers had to do now: Figure out how to cover the rest of the game with their quickly thinning pitching options.

Their use, coupled with selective clearing of smaller trees and underbrush in another Indigenous technique called thinning, reduces the severity, intensity, and tree mortality of wildfires.

From Salon

Last week, Newsom signed a bill putting a moratorium on all blood thinning rat poisons, which travel up the food chain when predators eat dead or sickened rats.

We have seen the grim results of logging vast areas of remote forest under the guise of “thinning” and telling communities that these zones would act as fuel breaks, preventing wildfires from reaching towns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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