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short-lived

[shawrt-lahyvd, -livd] / ˈʃɔrtˈlaɪvd, -ˈlɪvd /


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Short-lived pollutants play a critical role in global warming.

From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024

Short-lived radioactive aluminum in its interior could have provided a heat source powerful enough to keep water liquid.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 24, 2023

Short-lived isotopes, by definition, do not survive long and are rare in the universe.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

Short-lived Teresa dissipated Saturday after persisting for just a few days.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

Solitary fancies go Short-lived wandering to and fro, Most like to bachelors, Or an ungiven maid, Not ancestors, With no posterity to make the lie afraid, Or keep truth undecayed.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo




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