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Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties saw 2 to 4 inches of rainfall, but all of that is dissipating.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2022

Meanwhile, their tolerance for dissent, even in their own ranks, is dissipating.

From BBC • May 17, 2022

European solidarity is dissipating as all countries scramble to find national responses to the virus.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2020

If some of these inclinations suggest a West Coast flavor, it is dissipating.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2016

Those, however, who think that science is dissipating religious beliefs and sentiments seem unaware that whatever of mystery is taken from the old interpretation is added to the new.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir