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wear off

verb as in go away

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The pixie dust of film school wore off fairly quickly, she remembers.

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“After my shock wears off, and we exchange brief pleasantries, I ask if we can hitch a ride back to Ashton Place. ‘Only if you can bake!’ he says.

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But the shock soon wore off, and she began to await each postal delivery with glee.

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"We did not see its effect wear off over time."

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The $1.7 billion DOE loan program, which was announced in May 2024, had initially sent Plug’s stock soaring, but the shine quickly wore off given the capital constraints of building out its own hydrogen network.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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