dissipate
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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
When Morocco's energy started to dissipate, it became a contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
In a fast-return scenario, flows could rebound rapidly and even briefly exceed pre-war levels if security concerns fully dissipate, though this outcome is considered unlikely, Matt Wright and Panagiotis Krontiras say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
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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
Sunday: As the storm dissipates, most areas are projected to get 0.1 inch or less.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
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
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So maybe the sting has not dissipated, not after the Brewers so rudely swept the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Incident traffic has dissipated substantially in the past years, it noted, with 45 incidents reported in 2024, 19 in 2025, and three since the beginning of 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
He looked directly at the man with an anger that dissipated his weakness.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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Plus, I was famished with the kind of hunger that accompanies the dissipating stress after leaving the dentist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
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
But unlike at home, the sparks were sucked away by the wind, dissipating as soon as they took flight.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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