as in vanishing
to cease to be visible
by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated
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Recent Examples of evaporating
Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
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Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
On their simulated planet, clouds released rain that froze into icebergs that melted and flowed down rivers, soaking soil and evaporating to rejoin the atmosphere.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In immersion cooling systems, servers are submerged in a fluid that carries heat away without evaporating water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.
—Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
The technology uses air to maintain a dry microclimate by evaporating sweat from the inside out, promoting evaporative cooling, per Polartec.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Any notion that Juan Soto's first season with the New York Mets is in any way a disappointment has been evaporating by the minute.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Xi’s predecessors could tout the country’s rapid economic progress, but this ready source of political legitimacy has been evaporating, as growth has slowed and jobs are harder to find.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
The business community’s last best hopes to defeat Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, are evaporating.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
On their simulated planet, clouds released rain that froze into icebergs that melted and flowed down rivers, soaking soil and evaporating to rejoin the atmosphere.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In immersion cooling systems, servers are submerged in a fluid that carries heat away without evaporating water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.
—Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
The technology uses air to maintain a dry microclimate by evaporating sweat from the inside out, promoting evaporative cooling, per Polartec.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Any notion that Juan Soto's first season with the New York Mets is in any way a disappointment has been evaporating by the minute.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Xi’s predecessors could tout the country’s rapid economic progress, but this ready source of political legitimacy has been evaporating, as growth has slowed and jobs are harder to find.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
The business community’s last best hopes to defeat Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist candidate for New York City mayor, are evaporating.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
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Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Under her leadership, the NYBG’s research team has expanded to 81 projects across 79 countries to conserve disappearing plant species, restore degraded ecosystems, and breed crops to withstand drought, sea level rise and extreme heat under climate change.—
Eduardo Garcia,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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All perfumes pull a disappearing act at some point during the day, but Coty has figured out a way to make their fragrances less fleeting.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But with its novelty fading and political scrutiny mounting, its long-term future in America is far from secure.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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The sturdy plastic housings resist fading and cracking and are brown in color to blend with most outdoor surfaces.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Sep. 2025
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If this conveyor belt of warm, salty water were disrupted — say, by an influx of freshwater from melting Greenland ice, or warmer ocean temperatures — the result could be catastrophic.—
Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The style fused the sleek polish of a wet look with a deep, sculptural wave that framed the face before melting seamlessly into a bun.—
Essence,
Essence,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Evaporating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporating. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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