weaken

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A slower pace of rate increases, Powell has said, could help the Fed achieve a tricky feat: Weaken the economy enough to tame inflation, without undermining it so much as to cause a deep recession.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2023

Powell reiterated that the Fed still hopes to pull off a tricky feat: Weaken the economy enough to tame inflation, without undermining it so much as to cause a deep recession.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

As the author of the article “More Than a Century of Efforts to Weaken Life Insurance Reserves,” he can compare today’s captive-reinsurance phenomenon with other skirt-the-rules tactics dating all the way back to 1863.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2015

One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Never Weaken At the Finish He should not fear to close the sale.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.