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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

Reynolds’ impostor syndrome didn’t dissipate once she got to set, particularly as Episode 2 pits Alice against Rebecca.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

At the same time, most thought that the Fed could keep interest rates where they are, or eventually lower them, if inflation pressures dissipate relatively soon, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Yet it remained too hot in the courtroom despite this; the trapped heat wouldn’t dissipate.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

The negativity dissipates as a young man walks into the clubhouse, baseball cap on backward for the moment, energetic and respectful and joyful and supremely confident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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

I focus my attention on the cloth until I can breathe evenly again, until the panic dissipates.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

Troops are now readying for the challenges that the scorching summer might bring, but any worries over their families without heat and light in civilian cities have dissipated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 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

But to his questions she gave proper answers; to do otherwise would be waste motion, and dissipated energy, and foreign to a good cat.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

“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

He felt the tingle in his skin dissipating.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste




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