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ephemeral

[ih-fem-er-uhl] / ɪˈfɛm ər əl /


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The exhibition slips past the complications of World War II with just a few ephemeral examples before segueing into an accumulation of familiar pop-culture products.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the chair would be something worthy of as much lunch discussion as any horrific international crisis or ephemeral gossip.

From Salon

Many are ephemeral; fleeting leaf sculptures that blow away into the forest or giant snowballs placed in the city of London which melted to disclose sticks and stones.

From BBC

The courts have yet to rule on tariffs and impoundments, and those “savings” could prove ephemeral.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the meantime Wicks, who hopes to stage a show later this year that intermixes dance with tarot themes, has created an experience that uses modern augmented reality technology and yet feels ephemeral.

From Los Angeles Times