as in flash
lasting only for a short time
beauty that is as evanescent as a rainbow
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Recent Examples of evanescent
Or something perhaps deeper and more difficult but not quite so evanescent? Attendance declines have made this question more urgent.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
More often, though, the new songs are evanescent.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
On the plus side are our memories, which elevate the evanescent pleasure of the meal to the longer-term reward of enjoyment.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2022
Still another is for people and institutions to realize that cancellation mobs are often powerless and evanescent (and unmerited), a fearsome tide from far off that recedes to nothing closer to shore, and simply wait them out before acting rashly.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2023
More often, though, the new songs are evanescent.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2022
On the plus side are our memories, which elevate the evanescent pleasure of the meal to the longer-term reward of enjoyment.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2022
Still another is for people and institutions to realize that cancellation mobs are often powerless and evanescent (and unmerited), a fearsome tide from far off that recedes to nothing closer to shore, and simply wait them out before acting rashly.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanescent
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Thursday's weekly jobless claims numbers and S&P Global's flash PMI data will be closely assessed to gauge economic health in the wake of tariff uncertainties.—
Nikhil Sharma,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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Focus now shifts to Thursday’s weekly jobless claims numbers and S&P Global’s flash PMI data to gauge economic health in the wake of tariff uncertainties.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Individual games through an 18-week season are so variable that sports books generally don’t offer odds for every single game in a season for more than just a brief moment to create headlines.—
Chad Graff,
New York Times,
23 July 2025
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The scene grew chaotic after immigration agents tried to arrest Baraka for trespassing, and McIver's elbows appeared to make brief contact with an immigration officer.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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The court's ruling extending its temporary restraining order is disappointing.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
26 July 2025
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But even a temporary slump has pushed him below the Dodgers' expectations.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 July 2025
Adjective
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Born in northern Iran, near the Caspian Sea, Kamran’s childhood was somewhat transient due to her father’s work for the department of educations, which kept the family moving every four or five years.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
25 July 2025
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It was surrounded on every side by a moat-like parking lot, every parking space neatly marked by diagonal lines, white for transient parking, yellow for monthly parking, green for the building’s maintenance personnel.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Jake Davis and Manu Garcia combined for a passing sequence that ended with Thommy in a pocket of space on the left wing.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2025
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Earlier this week, the people at PFF put out a stat of the quarterbacks with the most passing and rushing touchdowns since 2022.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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What might have been a fleeting, lighthearted moment turned viral when viewers realized the pair were executives at the same tech company and neither had intended for their embrace to become a public spectacle.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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And these public standoffs between Jones and his most important players usually end up being pointlessly fleeting.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
Adjective
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Yet the countess’s greatest achievements may have resided in the ephemeral realm of fashion.—
Leslie Camhi,
New Yorker,
25 July 2025
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Agenda items that receive support from the electorate and in Parliament can take years to enact, and by then the country’s famously ephemeral governments often have changed.—
Massimo Calabresi,
Time,
24 July 2025
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The impact of tariffs is transitory, and quite small relative to the size of the economy.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Poignant visual metaphors for mortality and the transitory power of the cinematic image abound.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
13 June 2025
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“Evanescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanescent. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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