as in flash
lasting only for a short time
savor the fugacious pleasures of life as intensely as the more enduring ones
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Recent Examples of fugacious
And even long-term, canonical sources such as books and scholarly journals are in fugacious configurations—usually to support digital subscription models that require scarcity—that preclude ready long-term linking, even as their physical counterparts evaporate.
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Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fugacious
Adjective
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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
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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
Adjective
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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
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Topline Actor Ike Barinholtz is in talks to portray the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, in an upcoming comedy-drama movie that will reportedly center on the brief ousting of billionaire Sam Altman from the helm of OpenAI in 2023.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes.com,
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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The request, which was made in July, is a temporary stopgap while the company awaits federal clearance to dredge a permanent channel to the Wallops Island site.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
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
Adjective
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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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The benefits of being a statesman, analysts say, can be evanescent if domestic woes keep piling up.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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The benefits of being a statesman, analysts say, can be evanescent if domestic woes keep piling up.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
23 Mar. 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
Adjective
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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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“Fugacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fugacious. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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