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ephemera

[ih-fem-er-uh] / ɪˈfɛm ər ə /


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The idea is to show ephemera that is beaten and weathered, says Worthington.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

The facility will include state-of-the-art, climate-controlled storage for the museum’s more than 250,000-object collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, tapestries and Cold War-era ephemera from the Soviet Union, East Bloc, China and other countries.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

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

I see her auburn hair, blue eyes and delicate face—more than ephemera.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander

Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

Verily for us, the ephemerae of thought, this unbroken continuity of the sun of Egypt has more of melancholy even than the changing, overcast skies of our climate.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter

Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

Born of the sunshine, on a morning in late December, gray ephemerae danced and dipped and fashioned vanishing patterns against the green of the great laurel at the corner of Drift farmyard.

From Lying Prophets by Phillpotts, Eden

To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras.

From Time Magazine Archive



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