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The word 'attenuating' is correct and can be used in written English
It means to make something weaker or less significant. Example: The doctor prescribed a medication that was meant to attenuate the side effects of the chemotherapy treatment. In this sentence, 'attenuate' is used to describe the action of reducing the intensity or strength of the side effects. It can also be used in a more general context, such as attenuating an argument or attenuating the effects of climate change. In both cases, it is used to describe the process of lessening the impact or power of something.
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attenuating
verb
Present participle of attenuate
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It just seems to me that everyone else's vocabulary must be rather grotesquely attenuating.
Oxygen molecules in the atmosphere resonate at 60 gigahertz, absorbing energy from radio waves at this frequency and attenuating them severely.
Kevin Ariën, the lead author of the paper, stresses that the study is based on a small set of samples and does not prove that HIV's virulence is attenuating around the world.
The mixture of water and salts in a human body is particularly good at attenuating signals in the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands used for Wi-Fi networking.
Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced ", sounds, on page 785, well, like a parody of Slate or The Economist.These weaknesses might be tolerable if "Underworld" were populated by more riveting characters.
The One, in its limitless plenitude of being, overflows into the surrounding void, and the descending and attenuating degrees of being constitute the many-leveled universe.
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Since LegCo is a mixture of popularly elected delegates and representatives of "functional constituencies" (professional, commercial and other interest groups), its powers already weak are attenuated further by questions over its legitimacy.
He was an artist, a delicate, attenuated figure who drew his inspiration from the pages of Marcel Proust, the paintings of Braque, Matisse, Picasso and van Gogh, and the counsels of his assistant, Loulou de la Falaise.
True, family bonds sustain religion where it might otherwise attenuate.
Note that rapid increases in educational attainment could help attenuate this effect, by slowing the growth in the glut of workers competing for low-skill work.
Then a larger study in which Dr Wakefield was involved produced evidence that children with the new syndrome had measles viruses in their guts more often than healthy children did.The measles component of MMR consists of living, though "attenuated", viruses so the implication was that this was the source of the viruses in the children's guts.
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