To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender
John Latta
@lattaj.bsky.social
Out of William Carlos Williams’s “Prologue to Kora in Hell” (1920): “A poem is tough by no quality it borrows from a logical recital of events nor from the events themselves but solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.”
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Ákos T Kovács
@evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
Evolution in response to prophage activation attenuates the virulence of culturable Serratia symbiotica relatives of aphid endosymbionts
#mBio by Anthony VanDieren & Jeff Barrick
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02041-25
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bioRxivpreprint
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Cyclic azapeptide cluster of differentiation-36 receptor modulator attenuates left ventricular injury and temporarily reduces long-chain fatty acid accumulation after myocardial ischemia-reperfusion in mice https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.04.674351v1
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