Both Uses of
mitigate
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Half the Sky
- The third lesson is that even when a social problem is so vast as to be insoluble in its entirety, it's still worth mitigating.
Chpt 2 *mitigating = making less harmful or unpleasant
- Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant