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• The report fails to take into account all the mitigating factors.From the entry fail
• The servicification of legacy enterprise solutions simplifies ongoing integration and significantly mitigates risk.From the entry servicification
• Foreign names were simplified by the author to mitigate the Russian novel effect.From the entry Russian novel effect
• The school found that a trimestral system mitigated some of the problems caused by its high student turnover.From the entry trimestral
• Spoiler alert, these measures have not proved to be very helpful at mitigating the effects of this crisis.From the entry spoiler alert
• How can ethnopolitical violence be hindered or mitigated?From the entry ethnopolitical
• Growers in the region had overplanted their wheat in a desperate attempt to mitigate slim margins by "making it up on volume".From the entry overplant
• Local officials believe latchkey programs could help mitigate Knox County’s child care shortage.2022 August 30, Grant Pepper, “Could Fredericktown’s latchkey program serve as a model for other Knox County school districts?”, in…. From the entry Knox County
• To mitigate that risk, there's an important exception to actor serialization: actors are reentrant.2021, Matt Neuburg, iOS 15 Programming Fundamentals with Swift, 8th edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 386. From the entry reentrant
• In order to mitigate any possible misconstrual, the following sections highlight this fact where it is relevant.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography…. From the entry misconstrual
• Similar to parasympathetically mediated HR-slowing, Fingolimod-related HR-slowing is reversed by atropine or mitigated by alpha 1-receptor-agonists.2015 July 6, “Central Autonomic Dysfunction Delays Recovery of Fingolimod Induced Heart Rate Slowing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry parasympathetically
• Gleeson, a brilliant performer, shows us the face of evil but with the mitigating circumstances of humanity.2005 April 1, Desson Thomson, “'In My Country': Unjustifiable”, in Washington Post, retrieved 20 Nov 2015. From the entry three-dimensionality
• The absentaneous nature of the job tended to mitigate expectations of single site employment.1988, The Industrial Law Journal, Vol. 17, page 254. From the entry absentaneous
• The setup's almost laughably pat, and nothing that follows mitigates that patness.1988 January 29, Anthony Adler, “K-2/The Indian Wants the Bronx”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry patness
• Widespread popular tolerance of white magic thus helped to mitigate the rigours of the law.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 238. From the entry white magic
• Although its closeness was mitigated with lavender-water, the atmosphere smelt faintly of rotten apples.1933, Ethel Lina White, chapter 5, in Some Must Watch. From the entry lavender water
• Hot-water cans put in at Plymouth mitigated to some extent the iciness of the compartment.1910, William J. Locke, A Christmas Mystery, New York: John Lane, page 28. From the entry hot water can
• Price changes associated with discounts grew at a much lower average rate than regular prices, helping to mitigate the inflation burden.2024, Alberto Cavallo, Oleksiy Kryvtsov, “Price discounts and cheapflation during the post-pandemic inflation surge”, in Journal of…. From the entry cheapflation
• Things like using Archpaladin to mitigate true damage, or recommending Health Vamp on farming classes that don't benefit from it.2022 February 18, xiaomole, “Combatting Misinformation”, in reddit.com. From the entry archpaladin
• To mitigate data poisoning, it is important not to let any one group contribute too much data to a model.2022, Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, Jeannette M. Wing, Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities…. From the entry data poisoning
• The new directive says risks associated with the use of so-called ‘blues and twos’ by coastguard vehicles “need to be mitigated”.2019 February 20, MacDara Conroy, “No More Blue Lights & Sirens For Irish Coast Guard Road Vehicles Under New Directive”, in Afloat.ie. From the entry blues and twos
• All chicories share a mildly bitter taste that can be mitigated by blanching them and soaking them in salted water.1999, Rosalind Creasy, “Italian Garden Encyclopedia [Chicories (cicorie): Cichorium intybus]”, in The Edible Italian Garden, North…. From the entry chicory
• Provided that any such window or skylight may be whitewashed or shaded for the purpose of mitigating heat or glare.1978, Commissioner for Labour, “Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations 1978”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page…. From the entry whitewash
• This section contains a listing of the mitigating measures that have been considered as a result of a geotechnic evaluation.1975, United States. Bureau of Land Management, North border, page 1353. From the entry geotechnic
• The soil slumpage due to fluid removal and to explosives used in seismic exploration cannot always be mitigated.1974, United States. Dept. of the Interior. Office of Economic Analysis, Deregulation of natural gas prices. From the entry slumpage
• Dead whales were used to soften leather and lubricate machines and to somewhat mitigate the effects of trench foot in the first world war.2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian. From the entry whale
• One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories.2023, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Copycat Crime. From the entry minimize
• Gary Rasp, a TCEQ spokesperson, told ProPublica that the agency “has taken actions to monitor, mitigate, and improve the air quality in fence line communities.”2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica. From the entry TCEQ
• Although some apeirophobics have benefitted from treatments like medication and cognitive behavioral therapy, others have found no way to mitigate the existential terror.2016 September 1, Bobby Azarian, “Apeirophobia: The Fear of Eternity”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2017. From the entry benefit
• As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122. From the entry pedophilia
• Postoccurrence activities are those tasks and functions that can be carried out after the incident to help mitigate the potential or real loss.1986, Gary P. Kraus, “Introduction to Risk Management”, in Health Care Risk Management: Organization and Claims Administration…. From the entry preoccurrence
• Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd ch 12. From the entry mitigated
• It was evidently essential that a counter-discovery should mitigate the publisher’s complacency, and sustain Lady Honoret’s reputation as a connaisseuse in the literary world.1921, E. M. Delafield [pen name; Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood], The Heel of Achilles, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 223. From the entry connaisseuse
• "We have to be able to demonstrate that it is not just a paper engine but a real engine" and that development work has "mitigated all the risk"., Dominic Perr, “Airbus Helicopters to begin Arrano tests for H160 shortly”, in Flight Global, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2025. From the entry paper
• The best way to mitigate slopsquatting is for developers to proactively monitor every dependency and use tools to vet dependencies before adding them to projects, the vendor concluded.2025 April 14, Phil Muncaster, “AI Hallucinations Create “Slopsquatting” Supply Chain Threat”, in Infosecurity Magazine. From the entry proactively
• Tony Bauernfeind, commander of AFSOC, directed an “operational standdown” of the Air Force’s CV-22 fleet “to mitigate risk while the investigation continues” into last week’s crash.2023 December 6, Haley Britzky, “US military grounds Osprey fleet after crash off coast of Japan kills 8 US airmen”, in CNN. From the entry V-22

Meaning of mitigate

1. verb To reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.
2. verb To downplay.
3. verb To give force or effect toward preventing a problem.

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How do you use mitigate in a sentence?

Mitigate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.”

What is a short sentence with mitigate?

“We've mitigated against the chance of flooding.”

What does mitigate mean?

Mitigate means to reduce, lessen, or decrease and thereby to make less severe or easier to bear.