ephemera
Example Sentences
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Games back then were rapt-audience monuments, not ephemera to glance at while futzing around group texts and prediction market apps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
How well can you recall the past 250 years of books, music, movies and other cultural ephemera that makes up our country?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026
This is where the oils live, and the spices, and the half-forgotten jars of jam, olives, vinegars and other bits of kitchen ephemera that have been quietly waiting for their moment.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026
“That’s just how his brain worked,” she says of his keen eye that transformed everyday ephemera into a valuable historical archive.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
Oh Thou, to whom directing worlds is play, Thy condescension without bounds must be, If man, the frail ephemera of a day, Be graciously regarded still by Thee.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.