ephemeral
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"That ephemeral, wet-dry landscape - all the wading birds will absolutely love it, and you'll get insects... and all the really cool plants and flowers."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
These are intended to serve as tangible souvenirs of the ephemeral dream in Dataland.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
A crop rose that summer in the shadow of the Twin Towers, an ephemeral symbol of plenty beside the perpetually hungry wolves of Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Absorbing this well-chosen album is a treat, and a chance to appreciate the delicate mortality that thrives in a place simultaneously enormous, eternal and ephemeral.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their whole lives in the course of a single day.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing ephemeral
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Grade 12, List 1
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