Sample Sentences forattenuate (auto-selected)
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The problems of poverty are attenuated by the social safety net.attenuated = reduced
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Any connections between them would be extremely attenuated.† (source)
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Something attenuated, a nervous caution, suggested itself in all his movements.† (source)
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Generally when tomorrow came, the thought either did not occur at all or it was so attenuated by the delay it was not very troublesome.† (source)
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Vertical black figures in twos and threes would advance, stop, watch, and advance again, spreading out as they did so in a thin irregular crescent that promised to enclose the pit in its attenuated horns.† (source)
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'But my father threatened me,' gasped the boy, clasping his attenuated fingers, 'and I dread him — I dread him!† (source)
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As a rile, Simon avoids her type of attenuated and quietly distraught female, although doctors attract such women like magnets.† (source)
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To stay now meant attenuation; perhaps her own kind of death.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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In the new path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating circumstances.† (source)
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Klara watched the skywriter's smoke begin to attenuate and drift.† (source)
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The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay.† (source)
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The night before I had felt uncomfortable when I saw the men waiting in lines outside the doorways, smoking and taunting and singing to one another as they waited, their exuberance amazingly whole, unattenuated.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unattenuated means not and reverses the meaning of attenuated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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But once he'd learned to be patient with her repetitions and attenuations he began to find her presence a source of enormous comfort.† (source)
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Now, however, he wondered which would have been worse: the gush of smoke and the instant recognition of impending doom that would have come with it—or clean air and the hideously attenuated false hope of a last-minute correction, salvation.† (source)
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It was as though instead of having been subtly slain and corrupted by the ruthless and bigoted man into something beyond his intending and her knowing, she had been hammered stubbornly thinner and thinner like some passive and dully malleable metal, into an attenuation of dumb hopes and frustrated desires now faint and pale as dead ashes.† (source)
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He certainly felt that he was part of a different, more restricted society, was anything but a tourist; and his more recent, broadening perspective had brought with it attenuating duties and a dignity that distanced him from others, so that he was not of a mind to join them in their romps or to roll in the snow like a fool.† (source)
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