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evaporate

[ih-vap-uh-rayt] / ɪˈvæp əˌreɪt /


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A third Toyota driver, Sami Pajari, finished a further one point behind in third - having seen his own title challenge evaporate on the final weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Any quantum black holes produced under the proposed models would evaporate essentially immediately.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Memecoins have no intrinsic value, and often see their market value evaporate within days or hours after launch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

But the flurries are light, almost dancing in the air, spiraling and gliding before they land on the ground to melt and evaporate their way back up to the sky again.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

Water absorbs the heat generated by fission and evaporates into steam.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

U.S. stocks fell as the brief calm in the bond market evaporated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

He tested for Alfa Romeo, but then the team boss left and the opportunity evaporated.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Their findings suggest that the material came from a region near the surface of its parent asteroid, where liquid water evaporated and left behind increasingly concentrated salts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Platner adamantly denied this latest allegation, but within hours of the interview's publication, his political support evaporated.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

As the blood reached the site of the breach, the water in it quickly evaporated from the airflow and low pressure, leaving a gunky residue behind.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

Teenage work has been evaporating across the nation since the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"Not only have we been able to clear the view, but we can finally pin down what the clouds are made out of and how they're condensing and evaporating as they move around the planet."

From Science Daily ● May 27, 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 with MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

"States need institutions that help them work together," he said, warning that the very concept of international cooperation appeared to be evaporating.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

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




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