evanescent
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Nor could Wilder in his greatest play: Life, he reminds us, is precious but evanescent, and all too often we move through it without grasping its value and its beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
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
But it was in his novel “Next Season,” which I’m always foisting on theater friends, that Blakemore managed to capture the evanescent world of the stage in all its heartbreak and glory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
Every man, woman, and child who had died in Weep since...since when?...and passed near enough the citadel in their evanescent journey for Minya to catch.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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