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as in to subside
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
interest in the author's home abated as her novels waned in popularity
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as in to reduce
to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent
a couple of aspirin should abate the pain
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as in to abolish
to put an end to by formal action
asked the appellate court to abate the lower court's ruling allowing the patient to be removed from life support
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as in to subtract
to take away (an amount or number) from a total
I managed to get the used car dealer to abate $200 from the sticker price
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as in to deprive
to take something away from
recurring problems could not abate her of her enthusiasm for the project
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Recent Examples of abate
Catherine Carpenter, a research data analyst at Tracking California — a program that collects and analyzes water quality data — said testing of people’s homes in Paradise showed ongoing contamination long after the Camp Fire abated.
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Aria Bendix, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
The insomnia of his undercover years finally abated.
—Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
If Trump Derangement Syndrome has abated somewhat, Musk Derangement Syndrome has arisen to fill the vacuum.
—Rich Lowry, National Review, 7 Feb. 2025
Seismologists estimate that the high seismic activity could take days or weeks to abate, although locals and government officials said the shaking had lessened on Wednesday.
—Reuters, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2025
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But when Herring gave these patients buprenorphine, their pain and nausea subsided quickly.—
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In the case of the San Francisco Bay Area (specifically, Bay Farm Island, Corte Madera, Foster City and San Rafael), the researchers found that the land is subsiding at a rate of more than 0.4 inch each year as a result of sediment compaction.—
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Guided by billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration has moved aggressively the past week to fire probationary workers across federal departments and agencies in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the government.—
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An extra set of eyes and ears helps reduce the odds of injury.—
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But Reagan faced a Democratic House of Representatives that objected, and by 1984, the GOP had abandoned its call for abolishing the department.—
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Moreover, the president has intertwined his calls to abolish the $268 billion bureaucracy with attempts to leverage it to advance his own agenda.—
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During the processing, the AI combined something that shouldn’t have been combined, or added or subtracted something that shouldn’t have been included.—
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Average empty seats on each flight route was calculated by subtracting the difference in average seats per flight and average passengers per flight, the firm said.—
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Syria, Iran’s main regional partner, is now run not by Iranian ally Bashar al-Assad but by an anti-Iranian coalition that has deprived Tehran of its land bridge to Lebanon.—
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Kennedy has his eye on two things: the health of the American people and the corruption in DC that has deprived the American people of good health.—
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Unlike widening, which decreases the cost of driving and thus causes demand to rebound, congestion pricing regulates the cost of driving in a particular area or lane to tamp down on traffic, Burris explains.—
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The analysis found spending on metformin, an older first-line oral drug for Type 2 diabetes that's available as a generic, decreased 5% over the five years studied, to $623 million.—
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Democrats see the Medicaid cuts that are likely to be included in whatever legislation House Republicans put together as a salient line of political attack, akin to their efforts to campaign in 2018 on the GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.—
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The resolution would unlock a mega-reconciliation bill to bolster oil and gas drilling and repeal IRA programs.—
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Fortunately, there are often ways to deduct legal fees even under the new law.—
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Put another way, in this view, well-off people who choose to live in profligate spending states shouldn’t get to deduct state and local taxes on their federal returns, saving large amounts of money ahead of each April 15.—
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“Abate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abate. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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