evaporate

Scented cleaners release terpenes when fragrance compounds evaporate from sprayed droplets or cleaned surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Experts have told The Times, humidity impedes the body’s ability to cool itself naturally, because the moist atmosphere doesn’t allow for sweat to evaporate as easily, causing you to continue to get warmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some millennials, in particular those who watched housing wealth evaporate during the Great Recession, may also see homeownership as “a liability,” said Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, a senior research associate at the Harvard housing studies center.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Billions of dollars of annual sales can evaporate, sometimes within a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

There is no especially good reason for this, and it pretty much evaporates for the remainder of the eight-episode series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

As sweat evaporates from the skin, it carries heat away.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Heat domes can cause "dry thunderstorms," in which rain evaporates before hitting the ground and lightning strikes are liable to trigger wildfires, as much of the western United States is already experiencing drought conditions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Every drop of rain that falls on her evaporates instantly, sizzling into steam as soon as it touches her.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

This one responded to a price, not to plumbing, which is exactly how the market read it, and why the effect evaporated within a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Its shares used to trade at a big premium to the American label, but the valuation gap has evaporated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

According to Judge Ferrero, Byrd and Roberts initially had a right to defend themselves, but that right evaporated once their attacker began retreating—while he still held his shotgun—and they moved toward him.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

"As suddenly as you began, you stopped, your anger evaporated, and then you dozed off."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

I set the can on a steam pipe until the water evaporated, leaving bits of solid food in the bottom.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Summer jobs for teens are evaporating, as rising inflation and higher fuel prices squeeze the small businesses and restaurants that typically hire them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

“The argument for having lower rates is just evaporating right before our very eyes,” said Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College, in an interview.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

Most no- or low-alcohol wines rely on a de-alcoholisation process which sees the wine heated in vacuum conditions, with the alcohol evaporating off at relatively low temperatures.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

Just as water evaporating in a glass leaves behind a film of salts and minerals, water evaporating from irrigation channels leaves deposits in the soil.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann