evaporate
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Eisenman adds that fans can cause more water to evaporate from your skin in dry conditions such as L.A., further drying you out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Richard Windsor, an independent analyst at Radio Free Mobile, said Alphabet’s earnings-per-share figure hinged largely on the “illusory security of a series of unrealized investment returns that will evaporate at the first hint of trouble.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
The research introduces an updated approach to black hole thermodynamics that works even when black holes are changing over time, potentially offering new insights into how they form, merge, and slowly evaporate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Without soil moisture to evaporate, solar energy goes entirely into baking the ground, thereby amplifying temperatures.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Nor can the water evaporate; the clay layers atop the sand press down and prevent air from coming in.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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But that sense of control evaporates as soon as Layla's period nears - the peak of her menstrual cycle.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Heat domes also cause "dry thunderstorms" where rain evaporates before hitting the surface and lightning strikes are liable to trigger wildfires.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet if a black hole evaporates completely, all information about the matter that fell into it appears to vanish as well.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Others are hoarding cash in preparation for a layoff they consider inevitable, or placing risky bets on the stock market to get rich before their job and salary evaporates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
All my anger at her over the last week evaporates in a haze of worry about the ice cream machine.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
By then, I had gained self-confidence and my shyness had evaporated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
While Platner—whose lead in the race had evaporated after a previous wave of stories about his relationship history—has not yet relented, he has suggested that he’s reassessing his run.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The optimism of the victory over New Zealand in the first Test has evaporated.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
My previous doubts and fears evaporated, as now I knew that I could excuse anything.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Dry land encourages higher temperatures because less of the Sun's energy is used in evaporating moisture, leaving more available to heat the ground and the air.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 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
In fact, it only obscures my view for a few seconds before evaporating completely.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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