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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alleviating if not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to express that something is reducing a problem or difficulty, even if it doesn't completely eliminate it.
Example: "The new policy is alleviating, if not completely solving, the issues faced by the employees."
Alternatives: "mitigating, if not resolving" or "lessening, if not eliminating".
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A host of medical interventions has been demonstrated to have benefit in alleviating, if not eliminating, symptoms associated with endometriosis.
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And it would alleviate, if not eliminate, garbled strategic voting.
Days spent in grief and sick worry over the news and the possible news and hypothetical extrapolations of the news could be alleviated, if not entirely cured, by talking, eventually talking about other things, eventually finding ways to laugh.
The tension was alleviated, if not resolved, by an implicit knowledge that Jews were the outsiders — so that doing what prevented their persecution, or advanced their civic interests, also advanced social tolerance and the formation of civil society more generally.
Fortunately for the US, the immediate adverse impact on borrowing costs would be alleviated, if not nullified, by investors' lack of readily available alternatives to US government bonds, as well as a Federal Reserve that has been buying large volumes of US Treasuries.
The possibilities range from the treatment of autoimmune, neurological, cardiovascular, and endocrinological diseases, to that of physical injuries and many other conditions in which cell repopulation or regeneration could alleviate if not totally cure the disorder.
Those concerns are alleviated -- if not eliminated -- by the fact that a single impartial magistrate will ultimately adjudicate all objections arising from the recount process.
Prenuptials, agreements signed between a man and a woman prior to the marriage to clearly define terms of settlement should a divorce occur, are designed to alleviate some, if not all, of the financial and emotional suffering.
"Successful global urbanization could lead to a profoundly-changed world in just a few decades, where age-old human problems of extreme poverty, famine, disease and conflict would be greatly alleviated -- if not eradicated".
This strategy was viewed as a way to alleviate most, if not all, the concerns, and to enable the benefits: "if a sound recording was made just as a matter of routine…They'd just be so used to it; it would just be a normal part of their day" (interviewee 14).
The dangerous brinkmanship with Iran could be alleviated if facts were not being misrepresented and distorted.
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