Example Sentences

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Investors have become wary again and the optimism on markets evident earlier in the week has dissipated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

These storage risks, however, are a genuine concern for traders, and weather unpredictability probably means even after the current U.S. scare has dissipated, prices will remain in the $3.50-4.00/mmBtu range.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026

"The necessity that was driving that concept has dissipated."

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

But the group’s influence has dissipated among an array of new groups pressing different, sometimes overlapping agendas.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024

We can’t go towards the camp until I know the toxin has dissipated.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera