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evaporate

[ih-vap-uh-rayt] / ɪˈvæp əˌreɪt /


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The situation has gotten so bad that both trades are nearing “round-trip” levels, where investors who have stuck with these strategies are on track to see most of their earlier returns evaporate.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

The company has seen $1.4 billion in market cap evaporate since the peak a month ago.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

It took just two games for the optimism to evaporate from the New York Giants’ season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Near the water-ice boundary, ice could evaporate as temperatures changed, releasing water vapor that later condensed again in cooler regions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

“If you come outside you won’t see any tears because the sun is so blazingly hot my sad tears evaporate before they even have time to leave my swollen red eyes.”

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos

Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

There is no especially good reason for this, and it pretty much evaporates for the remainder of the eight-episode series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

But that sense of control evaporates as soon as Layla's period nears - the peak of her menstrual cycle.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Heat domes also cause "dry thunderstorms" where rain evaporates before hitting the surface and lightning strikes are liable to trigger wildfires.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

He trusted her with everything, and it feels like his wishes just evaporated.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

As the crystal's uppermost layers slowly evaporated, they carried away unwanted contaminants, leaving behind a remarkably clean surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The skepticism I had heard at the beginning of the afternoon had evaporated.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

"There was so much clamour around him - then it just evaporated," he recalls.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Regan’s face went white, and the relief I’d felt upon her safe return evaporated instantly.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

“We have to lean in to that because that’s evaporating in the fast food space.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

This is because no energy is lost in evaporating any soil moisture so it goes directly into heating the air.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

“The argument for having lower rates is just evaporating right before our very eyes,” said Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College, in an interview.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

Time had a way of evaporating instantly when he was engrossed in an interesting project, such as cataloging his baseball cards, or reading a good mystery.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret


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