What is Mitigation in debate?

Mitigation concedes the direction of an argument but shrinks its size: the job losses are smaller than claimed, the risk is lower, the timeline is longer. Unlike a delink, mitigation leaves the opponent with some impact, so it has to be paired with weighing or offense to matter. Use it strategically by mitigating what you can’t delink and then winning the comparison. "Even if they win some economic harm, it is a fraction of what they claimed, and our impact outweighs what remains."