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evanesced

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verb

past tense of evanesce
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanesced
Verb
  • After it was announced in 2019 that the project’s release date had been moved to 2021, Sherlock Holmes 3 disappeared from the studio’s slate.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
  • The 12-year search for answers has concluded for the family of Trukita Scott, a mother of two who suddenly disappeared in 2014.
    Joan Murray, CBS News, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • Four swing districts vanished after Florida’s latest round of redistricting in April.
    Ashley Wu, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Rescuers located the bodies of four Italian divers deep inside an underwater cave in the Maldives, days after the group vanished during a dangerous dive far beyond recreational limits, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said Monday.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • More research is needed to calculate microbial cities’ full influence on ocean acidity because dissolved calcite can counteract the carbonic acid to an extent.
    Damien Pine, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Its water sample tested for dissolved solids, oil and grease, chlorides, sulfates, temperature and oxygen — all of which were within the bounds of Tesla’s permit.
    Arcelia Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • While Ingram faded, Barnes shone in the playoffs.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • That one afternoon’s momentary shame soon faded, but the belief that to be sick is a personal failure has much broader consequences.
    Tom Levenson, Time, 20 May 2026
Verb
  • Once stabilized, rapidly increasing the heat melted the lithium hydroxide more evenly around the particles.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
  • Years of angst over the changing of the guard at the media giant, Dow Jones component and larger-than-life American capitalist symbol melted away.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • Lou’s unit is sent to a rooftop to start shooting at an invisible enemy; the Khachaturian cars hear the gunfire and don’t know what to do.
    Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 16 May 2026
  • Experts have described the phenomenon as an invisible crisis with long-term humanitarian consequences — there are few official figures on the number of displaced people, who have almost no resources to turn to once violence forces them to leave.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026
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“Evanesced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanesced. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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