ephemeral
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A crop rose that summer in the shadow of the Twin Towers, an ephemeral symbol of plenty beside the perpetually hungry wolves of Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
Over the years, Chinatowns have offered me ephemeral homecomings in city after city without demanding that I make my home there.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
And the chair would be something worthy of as much lunch discussion as any horrific international crisis or ephemeral gossip.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
Many are ephemeral; fleeting leaf sculptures that blow away into the forest or giant snowballs placed in the city of London which melted to disclose sticks and stones.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
Indeed, its existence is so ephemeral that medical researchers are unable, without special procedures, to sample it before the body has destroyed it.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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