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dissipated

[dis-uh-pey-tid] / ˈdɪs əˌpeɪ tɪd /




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The power they had in qualification dissipated during the warm-up games.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Investors have become wary again and the optimism on markets evident earlier in the week has dissipated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The panic generated by Jamie Dimon’s “cockroaches” forewarning last October has never fully dissipated.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

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 • Feb. 9, 2026

Kepler described comets as darting through space “as the fishes in the sea,” but being dissipated by sunlight, as the cometary tail always points away from the sun.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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