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dissipate

[dis-uh-payt] / ˈdɪs əˌpeɪt /




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At any given moment, Scott Free has upward of 40 projects in development, although Scott says some of those eventually dissipate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Whether Microsoft’s report will cause “bear concerns” to dissipate is still up for debate.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

When Morocco's energy started to dissipate, it became a contest.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

In a fast-return scenario, flows could rebound rapidly and even briefly exceed pre-war levels if security concerns fully dissipate, though this outcome is considered unlikely, Matt Wright and Panagiotis Krontiras say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

When the final bulb pops alight, and the smoke and sparks dissipate, it is finally legible, this elaborate incandescent sign.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Those drivers will reassert themselves as geopolitical stress dissipates, they said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

They forecast silver dropping to about $42 an ounce by the end of next year as exuberance over gold dissipates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025

Boron arsenide has the potential to revolutionize electronics and semiconductor technology by providing a material that both dissipates heat effectively and performs as a high-quality semiconductor.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2025

During the seven-minute walk to the restaurant, the fog dissipates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

I focus my attention on the cloth until I can breathe evenly again, until the panic dissipates.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

So maybe the sting has not dissipated, not after the Brewers so rudely swept the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Incident traffic has dissipated substantially in the past years, it noted, with 45 incidents reported in 2024, 19 in 2025, and three since the beginning of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Wildlife experts and conservationists had previously observed that, in the wake of the storm, Tapanuli orangutan sightings had dissipated - fuelling speculation that the great apes may have been swept away by floods and landslides.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

If there was any bad blood between Paxton and Middleton over these clashes, it seems to have dissipated in the years since.

From Salon ● May 23, 2026

I had to scrape my teeth with my tongue several times before the flavor dissipated into the familiar bittersweet oregano and garlic.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Most of this low comedy is witless and irrelevant, dissipating the tension.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

While the colder climate of space holds appeal for some backers of the galactic data-center vision, “there’s no airflow,” Huang noted, which could present challenges when it comes to dissipating heat.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026

"The gas behaves like a perfect conductor; even though countless collisions occur between the atoms, quantities like mass and energy flow freely, without dissipating into the system."

From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026

The team created a model that showed how, instead of dissipating, it sloshed back and forth for nine days.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

He was already dissipating into a fine mist of sparkles.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland


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