dissipate
Example Sentences
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As the gay and dissipated Ned, Mr. Taylor is sublimely funny: “Johnny Case? Isn’t that a Joan Crawford western?”
"It helped me channel my perfectionism, taking it out of the dark and into the light and dissipating that shame."
From BBC
Economists say it could take a few more months for the data fog to dissipate.
From MarketWatch
By the time it began to assemble, much of the gas in the surrounding disc may have already dissipated, leaving too little material to build a thick atmosphere.
From Science Daily
The excitement dissipated when it came out that a single contract with OpenAI, which doesn’t make a profit, accounted for the vast majority of that backlog.
From Barron's
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