evanescent
Example Sentences
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While investors walk on eggshells anticipating Fed decisions, tariff relief, and evanescent cease-fires, one company is steadily feeding investors nutritious dividends, cash flows, and earnings per share growth.
From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025
It can be evanescent, exposing weaknesses or revealing strengths and talent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
It’s as if by forswearing the evanescent experience of real-life performing, Glenn Gould gave himself eternal fame.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024
Natasha Allegri’s evanescent story about a seemingly ageless young woman named Bee and her companion — a grouchy, perpetually frowning cat-dog that falls on her head from outer space — began to appear in 2013.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022
But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
