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dissipate

[dis-uh-payt] / ˈdɪs əˌpeɪt /




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The price effect may dissipate soon, in which case higher rates will start to bite only after inflation has already begun coming down.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

Bertha is forecast to weaken back to a tropical depression on Thursday and may dissipate by the end of the week as it nears the Texas coast.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 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

Clara nodded and began to dissipate into nothing.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

VIX futures can lose dramatically if VIX is declining and their time value premium dissipates.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Soccer’s governing body takes the heat, making a bet that once games begin and international mania takes over, the fury dissipates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

Six years on, the sand has moved up and down the coast as well as offshore, creating a small bar that dissipates the energy of the waves.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2025

Exercise dissipates tension, and tension is the enemy of serenity.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

The soap-bubble fantasy of Ms. Lemann’s New Orleans rather calls to mind the Hundred Acre Wood, if Christopher Robin were a gentle, dissipated loafer in a wrinkled seersucker suit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

For three weeks, McFarland and Brune followed short-lived storms that dissipated quickly, leaving them without useful data.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

The fog dissipated, and they found themselves on a peninsula that jutted out over a pitch-black void.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Plus, I was famished with the kind of hunger that accompanies the dissipating stress after leaving the dentist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

“You forgot the bit about clouds dissipating and vanishing into nothing,” said Yvaine.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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