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The company is reducing the number of employees through normal attrition rather than through layoffs.attrition = gradual loss
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The long conflict became a war of attrition, with both sides slowly wearing each other down.
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Several times the enemy was able to trick him into exposing more weakness than he meant to; other times the enemy was able to wear him down by attrition until his victory was as much a matter of luck as strategy. (source)attrition = gradual loss or weakening -- especially loss of people, as in a war
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The surprise of the attrition rate is that only a fraction of the ill-fated planes were lost in combat.† (source)
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She'd started out as a nursemaid for me, but as a result of turnovers and attrition she was now our mainstay.† (source)
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Plan Number Six: Wage a War of Attrition.† (source)
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—we were "winning a war of attrition."† (source)
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Adam had attempted Sniper School once before, in 2002 when both eyes were functioning, but had failed the attritional "stalking" portion of the course (as did nearly half his class), which drove him even harder to complete the three-month course now.† (source)
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Now we are in a war of attrition.† (source)
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Whether it was attrition of other people, or whatever.† (source)
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Kuribayashi concluded attrition was the best he could expect.† (source)
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And right here the attrition began.† (source)
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Cedric knows such issues of racial attrition are subjects of debate on campus, and he looks intently at the professor, letting the silence hang, hoping for a break.† (source)
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He'd had good experiences with almost all of them, though in his business there was an above-average rate of attrition and turnover.† (source)
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Ultimately it was the rude coldness of Shiva's skin, the terrible separation it delineated of the living and the dead, the disarticulation of our bound flesh, that forced me to a new understanding, a new way of seeing us in the face of such rapid attrition, and this is what I came to: Shiva and I were one being—ShivaMarion.† (source)
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And even if she hoped it might be, even if she hoped she might someday be persuaded by time or reason or gradual attrition not to feel this way anymore, it didn't matter.† (source)
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