dissipate
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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
“The pattern keeps repeating—initial enthusiasm when negotiations appear promising, only for that optimism to dissipate just as quickly,” analysts at ING said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
When Morocco's energy started to dissipate, it became a contest.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
And he predicted that effect to dissipate in the second quarter, leading eurozone GDP excluding Ireland to stagnate in the spring.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
No sooner had she spoken the words than the darkness began to dissipate.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Holmes remarks that she hadn’t thought about it until now, and the tension lifts as her frustration dissipates.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 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
Additionally, Goldman Sachs predicts that central bank demand will remain a fundamental pillar of support, averaging about 60 metric tons monthly, once price volatility dissipates.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 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
The earlier tender tone in my mom’s voice dissipates.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
"The spirit of Anchorage has dissipated," said Russian political analyst Fyodor Lukyanov -- close to the ruling elite -- in August.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 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
After the blue bus-exhaust clouds had dissipated, Snuffy Ledoux came unglued.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Most of this low comedy is witless and irrelevant, dissipating the tension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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
Winds are expected to continue dissipating this week, but it’s shaping up to be a short reprieve for fire-scarred Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
Cornelius emerged from the dissipating mist and puffed out his throat.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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