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dissipate

[dis-uh-peyt] / ˈdɪs əˌpeɪt /




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A column of black smoke rose over the Miramar air station early Friday, according to images captured on Alert California cameras, but the fire appeared to dissipate quickly.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Whether Microsoft’s report will cause “bear concerns” to dissipate is still up for debate.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

When Morocco's energy started to dissipate, it became a contest.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

The International Monetary Fund chief on Monday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, but warned it would take time for energy and other supply disruptions to dissipate.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

The usual cloud that turned the air brown and silty, but this time it failed to dissipate.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Those drivers will reassert themselves as geopolitical stress dissipates, they said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 15, 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

Perhaps this is just a temporary cloud, like the coastal fog that dissipates as summer rolls on?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2025

As I struggle to get up, the crowd around me slowly dissipates.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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

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

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

That view hasn’t fully dissipated, but it has become less certain.

From Barron's Apr. 8, 2026

Isobel says, looking around to see if anyone is close enough to overhear their conversation, but most of the mourners have dissipated into the rain.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Power-sector demand will start the week lower with heat in the south dissipating and Texas even trending toward cooler than normal for mid-July, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

The structure brings visitors below ground, from lightness to darkness, with sounds slowly dissipating.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 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

I laugh out loud, my fear dissipating, a dangerous sense of my own power growing.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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