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evanescent

[ev-uh-nes-uhnt] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt /


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Music is evanescent, and popular music even more so, but “The Music Is Black” is both an experience and a chronology.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

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

They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023

While it inevitably picks and chooses among the novel’s plot elements, “The English Patient” retains the original’s elusive, evanescent soul.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023

They are not just tiny and swift but also often tantalizingly evanescent.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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