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Example sentences for: lessen

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The real immorality, of course, is failing to do whatever is possible to lessen illness and disease.
How long does it take for the hurt to lessen?
The Washington Post said that Hsing-Hsing's almost human personality should lessen the "sense of apartness that causes us to treat so many animals as a commodity, or a nuisance--in either case as 'things' to be killed or driven away."
Overall, the collective effect of resveratrol would be to decrease endothelial injury and exposure of the subendothelial matrix, which would lessen the probability of formation of atherosclerotic plaques and the development of CHD [ 53, 54, 55].
Although implementing a multi-center study may initially appear burdensome, two mitigating factors lessen the burden: (1) randomization is not required and (2) investigators need not collect data on risk factors if the requirements hold.