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Recent Examples of evaporation
Additionally, by covering the soil, leafy plants slow down evaporation rates, which helps regulate moisture levels for nearby plants.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2026
Last year, the total water used (plus water lost to evaporation) was 3 million acre-feet more than what the river actually carried.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
High humidity reduces the evaporation of sweat, limiting the body’s primary cooling mechanism – that is why WBGT is important.
—Matt Slater, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Quantum physics says information cannot be destroyed, yet black hole evaporation seems to suggest otherwise.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 May 2026
Last year, the total water used (plus water lost to evaporation) was 3 million acre-feet more than what the river actually carried.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
High humidity reduces the evaporation of sweat, limiting the body’s primary cooling mechanism – that is why WBGT is important.
—Matt Slater, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Quantum physics says information cannot be destroyed, yet black hole evaporation seems to suggest otherwise.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporation
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The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.—
Ari Berman,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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All of them have at least one roster, or two, that is a melting pot.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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To measure overall turbulence, Turbli used a metric called the eddy dissipation rate, or EDR, to assign turbulence level scores.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
12 May 2026
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Brembo says the discs have been designed for rapid heat dissipation, while the mineral oil's viscosity remains stable across a wide range of temperatures.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
1 May 2026
Noun
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Extrapolate that out to 17 games and that’s 3,468 passing yards, 986 rushing yards and 34 touchdowns scored for a season.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
19 May 2026
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After his passing, Mango’s chief executive officer Roni Ruiz took on the role of chairman of the board.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
19 May 2026
Noun
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The researchers found that the cities’ chemical microenvironments increase calcite dissolution.—
Damien Pine,
Scientific American,
15 May 2026
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McMahon's first words to the committee, after the usual thank-you's, were a flag-planting for the department's forceful dissolution.—
Cory Turner,
NPR,
14 May 2026
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The scalloped edge is punctuated by double tassels carefully placed along the edge of the all-weather Sunbrella fabric that promises to repel mildew or prevent fading.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
13 May 2026
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Machine-washable without color fading, shrinkage or pilling.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Nails with black finger polish, like Susana wore on the eve of her vanishing, were found in the woods.—
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
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Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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