The Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It may be called dissimilation of a sort but this hardly explains it in itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference

This process is called dissimilation, essentially getting rid of the similar parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference

It's not enough just to use 'dissimilation' without a clear description of the process firmly grounded in phonetics and acoustics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference

By "dissimilation" I was naturally referring to the IE change, not the Japanese to clarify, I thought you might have had an argument for the lost vowel to have been a close one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference

To call this process 'dissimilation' requires you to first describe in scientific terms what the originally common feature might have been between dental plosives and high vowels, otherwise it cannot be classified as dissimilatory in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference

The dissimilation products are carried away by the water to greater depth.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Technologies] Reference

This is a great find and dissimilation on the Plein air to refined technique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plein Air and Poetry] Reference

Your appeal to dissimilation is weak considering that the change of word-medial m to v is an otherwise unheard-of process in Latin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting the origins of Mars and Vulcan right] Reference

One is a catastrophic dissimilation of culture with an ever poorer quality of life until social collapse decimates our lives and planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE END TIMES: And What's to Come] Reference

All but the Klingon monarch had weapons drawn, as they prepared for the dissimilation of their atoms and their arrival on enemy's figurative soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Destruction]

Simple voicing can account for the vowels, but for the sibilants, the rule would seem to be, in phonological terms, dissimilation of obstruency in continuants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan] Reference

This phenomenon is called “dissimilation” and a websearch on that term, “R-deletion” or both will turn up enough hits to give you a pretty good idea of the explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing r | Linguism] Reference

But alas, it's even simpler yet to believe that aspiratory dissimilation in both dialects are independent innovations since this phenomenon is apparently fairly common crosslinguistically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference

Never could his arts of dissimilation have been so severely tried, not even in the late scenes with Ellena, never have returned upon himself in punishment so severe, as in that which awaited him with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

Mhhm – maybe some kind of dissimilation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [hospital ~ orbital ~ digital | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference

It may be noted here that, apart from dissimilation, the sounds l, n.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

Their object was not so different, though even in this there was a certain dissimilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Slaves] Reference

Kistler WS, Lin EC (1970) Glycerol kinase, the pacemaker for the dissimilation of glycerol in.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The same group of names is affected by dissimilation, i.e. the instinct to avoid the recurrence of the same sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

For in these cases the supposed dissimilation is followed not by a decrease but by an increase of functional activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

A number of occupative names have lost the last syllable by dissimilation, e.g. Pepper for pepperer, Armour for armourer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

# -- It is assumed that in living substances like muscle, fatigue is caused by the break down or dissimilation of tissue by stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

There may also be an accumulation of the products of dissimilation -- 'the fatigue stuffs' -- and these latter may act as poisons or chemical depressants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

Like the staircase effect, this contravenes the commonly accepted theory of the dissimilation of tissue by stimulus, and the consequent depression of response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

By Middle English times, after Norman tampering or bungling, it had become Sloppesberie and Saloppesberie, the drastic alteration resulting from dissimilation.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1] Reference

It is in direct contradiction to that theory which supposes that each stimulus is followed by dissimilation or break-down of the tissue, reducing its function below par.    From Wordnik.com.  [Response in the Living and Non-Living] Reference

Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

The other is the fact that many occupative names ending in - rer lose the - er by dissimilation (Chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

‘assimilation’ in our dictionaries; ‘dissimilation’ has not yet found its way into them, but it speedily will.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

Amy Stoller’s understanding of dissimilation is different from mine, and the r-deletion she mentions is the post-vocalic deletion of non-rhotic speakers rather than the one I discussed.    From Wordnik.com.  [r-deletion | Linguism] Reference

“Amy Stoller’s understanding of dissimilation is different from mine, and the r-deletion she mentions is the post-vocalic deletion of non-rhotic speakers rather than the one I discussed.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [r-deletion | Linguism] Reference

"equal", Lat. oequalis-em V.L. equalem); i generally was preserved, but through dissimilation from accented Lat. i it sometimes became e.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

There is also separation and aggregation, assimilation and dissimilation, increase, diminution, equalization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parmenides] Reference