attenuated

It's just that the factors against leaving a bigcorp have become slightly attenuated.

I realize the system is archaic, etc., but I still like that connection, as attenuated as it may be, to our ancient past.

Hitchens did not say that being stressed and attenuated through effort gave him joy, he only said that he preferred this state to anything else.

Decisions by courts that do not share the English common law traditions are of even more attenuated influence.

The second time I put up a product page for a book, the response was much attenuated, and my follower growth has been slow and low quality.

I read it more to mean, a US citizen with highly attenuated ties to another country; after 3rd generation, you aren't likely to have immediate family overseas, &c. At least, I hope that's what was meant.

Because the "self-interest" angle is intellectually lazy and in this case very attenuated.

Even if the earplugs or earmuffs have a perfectly flat isolation/frequency curve, so that all frequencies are attenuated by 33 dB, you can still hear just fine; it's just not as loud.

The identity of the front-end is interesting only in a rather attenuated sense, and it can usually be trivially swapped out for another.

However, implying that other vaccines are unsafe because they are inactivated or attenuated does a disservice to the entire vaccine industry.

Because aliasing is usually more unacceptable than loss of detail in feature film production, bands are attenuated aggressively.