All 16 Uses of
mitigate
in
Outliers
- For that matter, he did not say um, or ah, or use any form of conversational mitigation: his sentences came marching out, one after another, polished and crisp, like soldiers on a parade ground.†
Chpt 3
- The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is "mitigated speech," which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said.
Chpt 7 *mitigated = reduced in harm or unpleasantness
- We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority.†
Chpt 7
- You mitigate.†
Chpt 7
- In a situation like that, mitigation is entirely appropriate.†
Chpt 7
- In Fischer's and Orasanu's minds, there were at least six ways to try to persuade the pilot to change course and avoid the bad weather, each with a different level of mitigation.†
Chpt 7
- It's zero mitigation.†
Chpt 7
- This is the most mitigated statement of all.†
Chpt 7
- The first officers, on the other hand, were talking to their boss, and so they overwhelmingly chose the most mitigated alternative.†
Chpt 7
- Mitigation explains one of the great anomalies of plane crashes.†
Chpt 7
- Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation in the past fifteen years.†
Chpt 7
- Aviation experts will tell you that it is the success of this war on mitigation as much as anything else that accounts for the extraordinary decline in airline accidents in recent years.†
Chpt 7
- Ratwatte took mitigation very seriously.†
Chpt 7
- Just "running out of fuel, sir" at the end of a sentence, preceded by the mitigating "ah."†
Chpt 7
- What was their great battle over mitigated speech and teamwork all about, after all?†
Chpt 7
- They don't see any hierarchical gap between themselves and the pilots in the air, and to them, mitigated speech from a pilot doesn't mean the speaker is being appropriately deferential to a superior.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant