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weakening

How to use weakening in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for weakening.

Editorial note

I can't imagine higher level courts weakening the fourth amendment.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

becoming weaker

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of weakening gathered in one view.

noun

becoming weaker

noun

the act of reducing the strength of something

adjective

causing debilitation

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for weakening.

noun

becoming weaker

noun

the act of reducing the strength of something

adjective

moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

Example sentences

1

I can't imagine higher level courts weakening the fourth amendment.

2

They also are a grand experiment by the Greys to colonize us by weakening our immune systems. Let me know if I left anything out, OP.

3

I get why he's doing it, but suggesting that weakening the security of a tool that is meant to enhance it is bad advice.

4

All you're doing is further weakening the supporting muscles, and making the injury worse. Buy yourself a set of climbing shoes, a chalk bag, and a membership to a climbing gym.

5

While the technology remains sound, our confidence in the policies may be weakening. To prepare for this, we may need to look at alternative trust models such as web of trust.

6

Basically, NVidia is weakening in the mobile sector. ARM overall is strong, but big.

7

They have all these people together on the campus so why would they reinforce the existing social segregation instead of weakening it? It's not simply a matter of cost or security.

8

I agree with the basic argument that economic growth has a weakening correlation with job growth. However, the idea often proffered that you solve this by making people with jobs work less is silly.

9

This strengthened my Anti-MS resolve instead of weakening it, and the shops since then have increasingly enjoyed the benefits of that resolve, creating a positive feedback loop in the process. I owe Microsoft a huge debt of gratitude for stoking the fire.

10

Even such an obtuse statement indicates a complete ignorance of what she did weakening further any point they have to make. Not helped by the fact they have not indicated the IT interests and acomplishments of the girl whom is the subject of the article.

11

The leaked texts show how dedicated the negotiators are to weakening sovereignty and empowering vested interests. This is the issue.

12

If a growing portion of the dentistry industry was discovered to have been weakening people's teeth at the government's request, I'd start to buy Bob a beer a little more often.

13

Strengthening weaknesses and weakening what we need our strengths to be doesn't work, and ends up feeding the monster of ineffectualness. Sounds easy enough to understand, but pay attention to what you say, do, and say you do and increase the discipline of consistency between those three.

14

The gradual weakening of these bonds has coincided with the rise of mass shootings. To sum up, America's individualistic, energetic culture minus a strong moral foundation and community ties = very bad news.

15

Conversely, they don't run user-generated-content sites like YouTube or Facebook, so aren't worried about the problems with weakening safe harbors.

16

She pecked away with her exquisite fingernails on the tiny plastic keyboard in front of her and then abruptly stood, and stalked to a printer, rolling and heaving her monstrous body against a uniform visibly weakening at the seams." What," she said, looking at her screen and then, for the first time, at me, "did you hope to do today?"

17

Classifying the speaker leads one to interpret an argument through one's preconception of that class of speaker, weakening one's listening and interpretation skills. And, classifying a speaker aloud often leads your audience to classify you in an opposing class.

18

It's almost like high-level blackmail because it makes the monopoly stronger while weakening the incentive to compete "outside" the monopoly. For example -- my favorite soapbox issue: the National Association of Realtors.

19

But weakening everyone's security, so they can intercept and read your mail at will, in secret, with no oversight, is just as wrong as the police breaking into your house in secret, at night, and rifling through your belongings.

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RSA: "RSA, as a security company, never divulges details of customer engagements, but we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use." ---> They had not positively known the RNG is flawed.

21

As I've argued elsewhere, the amount of political authority "Emperor Alexander" has managed to accumulate, and the unquestioning treatment he has received in congress and elsewhere, are signs of weakening in the republican system.

Quote examples

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The title is somewhat unclear, but the issue TBL has is not the cracking itself — as he notes this is a risk and race the internet normally faces — but the deliberate weakening and introduction of flaws into cryptosystems for the purpose of later snooping: > it's naive to imagine that if you introduce a weakness into a system, you will be the only one to use it. A lot of the IT industry feels that's a betrayal. [... ] The two governments have elevated the fight against organised hacker gangs and militarised cyber-attacks from states such as China to the rank of a top national security priority. Yet at the same time their spying branches have actively aided cybercriminals by weakening encryption.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use weakening in a sentence?

I can't imagine higher level courts weakening the fourth amendment.

What does weakening mean?

becoming weaker

What part of speech is weakening?

weakening is commonly used as noun, adjective.