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
They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023
At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bubbles, the wake of speeding fish.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
