as in brief
lasting only for a short time
the skier's triumph turned out to be short-lived, as the next competitor bested her time
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Recent Examples of short-lived
But their romance was short-lived, as Cage revealed to E! News.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The original operation was short-lived as it was marred by a string of controversies due to unpaid bills.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 July 2025
But the harsh reality is that many of these introductions are short-lived.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
Storms in Milwaukee will be short-lived with heavy rainfall, and widespread flooding is not expected.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 16 July 2025
The original operation was short-lived as it was marred by a string of controversies due to unpaid bills.
—Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 July 2025
But the harsh reality is that many of these introductions are short-lived.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
Storms in Milwaukee will be short-lived with heavy rainfall, and widespread flooding is not expected.
—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for short-lived
Recent Examples of Synonyms for short-lived
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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The following year, many non-certified staff were given a temporary $3.50 an hour pay bump using an influx of funding the district received amid the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Krista Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
25 July 2025
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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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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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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“Short-lived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short-lived. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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