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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mitigate .
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Examples
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I really don ` t respect the fact that she kind of mitigates how much she has been selling or what kind of money she ` s been making.
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Bringing sequels out every weekend kind of mitigates their risk.
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Bringing sequels out every weekend kind of mitigates their risk.
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In one way of looking at it, convection "mitigates" a pure radiation model.
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That kind of mitigates any shame I might have felt for making fun of the retarded guy.
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Nothing any of these guys do "mitigates" what the others have done.
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But, then, as with Spencer, he "mitigates" this harsh opinion by invoking the instinct of sympathy, which cannot be checked "without deterioration of the noblest part of our nature".
Jennifer Marohasy 2009
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That kind of mitigates the "always been known" stretch - known by whom?
JTA - Recent News 2009
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He "mitigates" the problem by arguing, "the changeability in our view of the past is a condition of getting our present into proper perspective.
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But the shift mitigates that—fewer balls fall in because Teixeira hits them into the gloves of a shifted-over gaggle of infielders.
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