mitigate
verb (used with object)
to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
mitigator
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a word derived from
mitigate.
Example Sentences
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By the time Krasner took office in January 2018, Drinks had spent hours spilling his soul to a lawyer and mitigator named Rachel Miller.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
If we become a mitigator of that relationship, if we start building algorithms to determine, you’ve made a post as a creator, are we going to give this to your fans or not?
From The Verge ● Jun. 22, 2021
Put differently, one brother couldn’t put forth a mitigator without exacerbating the culpability of the other.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2015
“Cash is the risk mitigator that we have,” says Watson.
From Forbes ● Feb. 13, 2013
Side by side, again, with war and love, appears in the romances medieval religion, likewise conventionalized and childishly superstitious, but in some inadequate degree a mitigator of cruelty and a restrainer of lawless passion.
From A History of English Literature by Robert Huntington Fletcher
