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How to use the word dissipated in a Sentence?

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Disney has alienated a lot of people now, and so the political influence they're used to wielding, I think has dissipated. And so the question is, why would you want to have special privileges in the law at all ? And I don't think that that we should.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Homes listed for sale are still garnering great interest, but the multiple, frenzied offers – sometimes double-digit bids on one property – have dissipated in most regions, even in a somewhat calmer market, a number of potential buyers are still choosing to waive appraisals and inspections.

Lawrence Yun

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I can tell you I do think we do need to reach agreement, and it's harder to do now because we're so much closer to the election, the cooperative spirit we had in March and April has dissipated as we move closer and closer to the election.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

At the onset of widespread shelter in place orders, as people sought to stay connected and entertained from home, we observed an increase in daily active users that informed our initial estimate, this initial lift dissipated faster than we anticipated as shelter in place conditions persisted.

Derek Andersen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The best-case outcome from a Trump-Xi meeting, which seems a dubious proposition at this stage, would be an agreement for the two sides to resume talks, the prospects for even a temporary and limited ceasefire have dissipated and a prolonged period of trade and broader economic tensions between the two countries seems on the cards.

Eswar Prasad

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Haniyeh returned to Gaza, Hamas gave an order ... and miraculously, this spontaneous protest by a public that could not handle the situation any more dissipated.

Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Even if you don't necessarily think the market's bottomed, you can have a degree of confidence that we're in a much more sideways pattern, the downward momentum has dissipated and pressure is off implied volatility.

John Saucer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are looking at companies... where revenue growth is accelerating and early stage risk has dissipated, often those companies are... at a point where they have been growing rapidly over the last three to five years, raised money from top-flight U.S. venture capital funds and are looking now to go international.

Richard Seewald

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We can see water in the interstellar clouds from which planetary systems and stellar systems form. We can see water in the disks of debris that are going to become planetary systems around other stars, and we can even see comets being dissipated in other solar systems as [their] star evaporates them. i'm a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils.

Paul Hertz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The market is taking the view that an agreement between Greece and EU is more likely than not, hence fears of a Greek exit have dissipated somewhat, so we're seeing appetite for riskier markets including peripherals.

Nick Stamenkovic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

William O. Douglas

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew'

Robert Charles Benchley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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