Example Sentences

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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

"It helped me channel my perfectionism, taking it out of the dark and into the light and dissipating that shame."

From BBC • Feb. 17, 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

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