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Synonyms for mitigating
mit·i·gat·ing
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mitigatingadjective
Synonyms:
extenuating.
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List of paraphrases for "mitigating":
extenuating, mitigate, mitigation, attenuating, alleviating, alleviation, alleviate, attenuation, mitigative, easing, reducing, attenuate, reduce, lessen, lessening, relieving
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
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| #2036 | reduce | |
| #4576 | reducing | |
| #11106 | mitigation | |
| #18285 | mitigate | |
| #19755 | alleviate | |
| #22578 | attenuation | |
| #25048 | lessen | |
| #25429 | mitigating | |
| #29589 | easing | |
| #29667 | relieving | |
| #35577 | alleviation | |
| #47558 | alleviating | |
| #53539 | lessening | |
| #56333 | extenuating | |
| #75186 | attenuate | |
| #110198 | attenuating | |
| #211812 | mitigative |
How to use mitigating in a sentence?
Yemen needs its leaders to focus every minute of their time on averting and mitigating the potentially disastrous consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak.
Specifically, the defense’s failure to present sufficient mitigating evidence, coupled with an inaccurate description of Tibbetts’ childhood by the prosecution, essentially prevented the jury from making an informed decision whether Tibbetts deserved the death sentence.
The reality is we don’t have to choose, often, between increasing our economic standards or mitigating climate change. We have the technology today to do both and we should do both.
Environmental Protection Agency.Glenn Miller:
There's no other metal that can work as well as lithium, we're going to need a lot of batteries to run the cars that we're going to have on the road. It's going to be a very positive contribution to mitigating climate change.
The risk that we always have in aviation security is can someone get something on board an aircraft. So a lot of our time and attention has been focused on mitigating the risk of people getting things on an aircraft. What the Fly-Bag does is it actually accepts that there maybe an instance where somebody is successful in getting something on board an aircraft. And therefore, the next question becomes how can we mitigate the effect of an explosive device detonating at altitude in an aircraft.
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