mitigate

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8 mentions 1 recordings first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug ↑8 vs the 12 months before

Verb meaning to make less severe, harmful, or painful

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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:30 · 3 Aug
…Even William Faulkner used mitigate in this way in his 1932 short story, Centaur in Brass, writing, it's as though there were some intangible and invisible social force that mitigates against him.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:20 · 3 Aug
…But confusion between the two has existed for long enough that some language experts accept mitigate against as an idiomatic alternative to militate.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 1:10 · 3 Aug
…Mitigate comes from the Latin verb mitigare, meaning to soften, whereas militate traces to militare, meaning to engage in warfare.…
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Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 0:48 · 3 Aug
…Sometimes, however, mitigate appears where the similar-looking militate is expected……
Peter SokolowskiMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 0:39 · 3 Aug
…The meaning of mitigate is straightforward enough to make something,……
UnknownMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 0:19 · 3 Aug
…To mitigate something is to make it less severe, harmful,……
UnknownMerriam-Webster's Word of the Day · mitigate · 0:18 · 3 Aug
…Mitigate is a verb.…
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