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dissipate

[dis-uh-peyt] / ˈdɪs əˌpeɪt /




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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

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

“The oil shock’s effect on prices may dissipate soon, in which case raising rates may only begin to bite after inflation has started coming back down,” Waller noted.

From MarketWatch May 23, 2026

The unstructured blobs of irregular galaxies, the arms of spiral galaxies and the torus of ring galaxies exist for only a few frames in the cosmic motion picture, then dissipate, often to be reformed again.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

In an hour, the haze dissipates to expose a white sky.

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

If their stop in Thailand does the trick, any frustration they may feel over their unexpectedly long and tough mission may have dissipated by the time they get home.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

If they are, will voters’ anger have dissipated?

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 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

After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The team created a model that showed how, instead of dissipating, it sloshed back and forth for nine days.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2024

Annabeth and Grover stood on the beach, in shock, watching the water flood back around Ares’s feet, his glowing golden ichor dissipating in the tide.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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