evaporation

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Recent Examples of evaporation Of particular concern is the end this year of federal pandemic relief funding, which for several years has helped prop up the budgets of all American cities — the evaporation of those funds will make the task of sustaining progress only more difficult. Katie Hill, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026 Previously, this heat was dispensed into the atmosphere through evaporation cooling towers, but CERN's new plan is to put this waste heat to some use while improving the facilities environmental signature by way of what's called the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment. New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026 That could mean many more PBHs are in the final stages of evaporation today. Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026 Additionally, if there is precipitation falling into the wedge, evaporation can further lower its temperature. Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporation
Noun
  • Part of having a melting pot of a clubhouse means missing some key ingredients for an extended period of spring training.
    Jack Vita, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • As a true melting pot of both linguistics (the Swiss speak German, French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Rumantsch) and activities, there’s nothing forgettable about this dreamy destination.
    Meghan Palmer, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The reactor facilitates rapid heat dissipation, preventing the thermal runaway that typically degrades catalysts.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Instead of requiring cooling systems that use large volumes of water like those on land, the network would rely on radiative cooling that occurs in space, which allows for the dissipation of heat.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The cameras caught Casper hugging John Shuster in the immediate aftermath in what felt like a passing of the torch between the faces of the sport.
    Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
  • According to a death certificate released this week, the condition caused the untimely passing of actress Catherine O’Hara, the Schitt’s Creek and Home Alone star, on January 30 at age 71 in Los Angeles.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Intertextuality is described by Scarlett Barton in perhaps the opposite way, as linked to Roland Barthes’ observation that the author is dead, and that the text is the dissolution of every kind of voice, every beginning and core.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In 2023, the Move Forward Party campaigned on curbing royal powers, though efforts to reform Thailand’s draconian royal defamation law, known as lèse-majesté or Article 112, were deemed unconstitutional and led to the party’s dissolution by the Constitutional Court.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The dramatic fading of this star, located around 3,200 light-years away in the Monoceros constellation, was first spotted at the end of 2024.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • For a team interested in adding youth last summer, the fading of Howard this season has been a curious development.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the season 1 finale, it was revealed that Roman was an undercover FBI informant, which might have been the reason for his vanishing.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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