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evanescence

[ev-uh-nes-uhns] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs əns /
NOUN
dissipation
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And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

But the tlamatinime shared the religion's sense of the evanescence of existence.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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