dissipating

Example Sentences

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“You can kind of feel people’s anxiety dissipating throughout the day,” Kai says, “so that by the time it’s dinner, everyone’s super comfortable with each other.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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

For a while, investors cheered the dissipating fog, with the Nasdaq composite surging as much as 2.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Few lights burned; but from a half-dozen chimneys slow, almost phosphorescent pinon smoke emerged, dissipating in a flat way over the town, seeping into bushy cottonwood foliage.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols